As I was said given the slightest chance I would love to visit as many birdhouses as possible.
Last two days I was in Johore and this time was in Kulai and Bukit Pasir.
The Kulai BH visit was on Friday morning while the Bukit Pasir was on Saturday morning.
I was received by Mr. P of Kulai at about 2 pm at Kulai Toll gate. From there he took about 5 minutes to reach a shopping area where more then 50 lots were converted into BHs.
The best was to visit one of the new BH under final touch before bringing those birds into the house.
The most fascinating was the size of the entrance roof. I thought my own BH entrance roof was big but you can imagine what size this was? Yes 20 feet by 15 feet.
The pool was the same size.
I am more mesmerized with two tweeters mounted to the wall and they looked like the "Gun Of Neverone (G.O.N)". about 5 feet long of steel pipe and about 4 inch diameter. The base was inserted with the Piezo tweeter, square type.
The BH owner claimed that this "G.O.N" was used in Melaka and it was very successful. The Melaka BH he referred to was the one that I captured and inserted in the You Tube (go down to the second last video clip). The unit was recently sold for RM 3 million.
One more interesting idea was the making of water dropping sound from any level.
In the pool area, the BH owner placed a PVC pipe, about 1 inch diameter, on one of the cement beam and allows a pump to push the water up. The PVC pipe was drilled with holes allowing the water to drip onto the water. The sound generated seem to make the birds feel peaceful, as if they are in the Cave.
The BH owner added one more water generated sound in the nesting area. He placed a large water container, about 8 feet diameter and about 3 feet high. On the top of the water container he laid a wooden support to hold pump accessories. Once the water was filled and the pump in operational mode, the water from one of the hose will drip onto the water surface. This water generating sound seems to add very interesting features to the BH.
I am impressed with these new things but a bit disappointed that the BH owner seen to take very little effort to monitor the room temperature and humidity. He takes no effort to install any thermostat gadgets to check on the room condition. No humidifiers, no fake nests and of course no aroma.
I hope his BH will be successful but from the look at the internal features I think it will face an uphill battle with those 49 more BHs around the same shopping area.
The Bukit Pasir BH, I visited this morning was very need and very successful.
The BH was a stand alone unit with a very solid dimension. It was about 30 feet wide and 80 feet length and 3 stories high. The owner adopted a top entry with a large pool area.
The weather was cool this morning and there were a reasonable number of birds in the house at 2.40 pm.
The temperature was very good, below 30; I see that there was no humidifier in the BH unit (all floors).
To tidy and the pungent smell of the bird shit was not that much in the lower floors but there were some on the higher floors.
The birds seem to stay at only the upper floors and more often on the corner where toward the pool area.
I make a few serious observations and I think if the owner can take advises to fine tune his BH, the number of birds can easily be multiplied by three or five.
I promised to make a special report plus all the necessary recommendations to the owner and I hope all the recommendations will be seriously looked into.......
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