There is nothing like observing and learning as much as you can while you visit those birdhouses.
I have been very fortunate since there are many BH owners would like me to visit their BH and provide some free tips that will help to increase their birdhouse population.
During my last trip to Kuala Trengganu and Kuala Krai, I have the following tips that you might want to consider if you wanted to increase your BH population:
1) Choose the right type of entrance hole.
Before you make up your mind on which type of entrance hole, whether the open roof or dog kennel, you need to do some check on those successful BHs in your area. If these successfull BHs are using the open roof, you should consider the same design. If most of them are the Dog Kennel, then that might be the right choice. Reason being, once these birds are so used to enter and leaving the houses using the same design then they will feel odd to enter a house of different design.
2) Install one tweeter playing the external call music in your BH.
I was in a BH in KT and this owner placed one tweeter each for each floor playing the external sound music. There were at least 10 to 15 birds enjoying themself with the tweeter.
The tweeter seem to serve as a magnet drawing these birds into the far end of the house where the tweeter (with external sound) were mounted.
3) Color Your Roof Areas.
This is something that you might want to try. Before you decide, I advise you to observe as many BHs as possible in your area. What I think you should do is to carefully look at the color of those BHs that are very successful. If their color is blue then try with blue. If most of them are in yellow, then choose yellow.
You main aim is to attract those young birds to a BH that is similar to their original house. You are actually playing a trick to get them into your BH.
4) Apply White Duck Egg solution.
You may want to try this too. I am not very sure the success rate but the logic is to make the area applied, on those wooden nesting panel, looks like it was already marked by a potential male's bird.
Try not to apply too much but just enought to look like an area that have sign of those birds salivar.
5) Use Close2You Aroma If You Can.
If you have the ability to buy a liter of this special product you should use them in at least three ways:
a) You pour about 150 ml into your humidifier water pot at the base of the Humidifier. This aroma when mixed with the water will be turned into cool mist that atually give the love aroma atrracting those young birds into your BH.
b) To pull the birds into your BH you should try to spray the Close2You on the entrance hole perimeter. Spray them evently and see what happen.
c) You should also spray the aroma onto those door area where the birds need to pass from the entrance hole into your nesting areas. This will actually make the birds goes deeper into your BH.
d) Inside your BH you can apply the aroma to a selected nesting plank areas where you want your birds to start their nesting. Do not apply too much because they might let to fungi growth. Just enought but not too much.
All the above tips are something that I came across and there is no full guarantee that they will work 100%. From my point of view if they gives you a 50% success it will be better then nothing. Remember every nest that you gain by using these recommendations is equal to RM1000. Just imagine you have 5 to 100 or more nests a month ???
The Close2You aroma are available with Harry and call him if you wish to try. They come in 5 liter and 1.5 liter bottles. Harry's mobile phone number is 017 755 1318
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