Birdhouse Self Designed And Is Less Then 4 Feet High!!!

What is the recommended floor height of a good BH?

I am stuck with a minimum of 7 feet. The reason being a young bird (never fly before) need the necessary drop height to take her maiden flight.

What happened if the height is less then four feet?

Frankly I could not imagine how the birds can fly out of the house.

To my dismay, I visited a birdhouse with less then 4 feet ceiling !!!

You need to crawl or do your duck walk just to inspect those birdnests. I just could not believed that the birds will like it.

According to the BH owner, the first nest was in that 4 feet height areas. I could not believed this special phenomena and it works.....

The owner is a DIY genious, 70 years old and they called him "APEK".

He showed me many more special designed features that you will never ever think of. The followings cought my attention:

a) His birdhouse was about 30 feet by 80 feet and three stories hight.

b) Each floor he designed the ceiling height of about 7 feet, running from front to the back, about 10 feet from both walls.

c) In the middle he created a rectangular hole which he termed as the super highway. Main purpose is to allow the birds to use as their roving, the LAL and for speed control. He claimed that the birds like to speed up to exercise their wings.

d) At the back portion he constructed the ceiling floor of 4 feet height. His main aim was to test whether those birds will used them to nest of not. If it is so then he will get them ready for his future BHs.

e) All piping and wiring are embeded in the building. They are installed in the structure of the building. As such they won't have the chance to accumulate bird shits on them.

f) On the top of his BH roof he has a large pond and with one pipe protruded out and water oozing out. I saw a few birds came to drink water from the flowing water. Unbelievable.

g) He installed this bizzare railing system to help the owner to carry our their nest harvesting without the need of using a ladder.

h) All his corner covers are home made and they are made of cement. My close observation indicated that they tend to chip very often.

I have the following pictures to share and this APEK is genious. I could not believed what I saw and everytime I think about him it tikle my brain.

Strange thing was that he could not speak a word of English and never understand a word of Indonesian Malay but he was with me during the recent Pontianak Seminar.

Please enjoy looking at these pictures:

BIRDHOUSE FRONT



GROUND FLOOR VIEW



SEVEN FEET CEILING



FOUR FEET CEILING NEED TO DUCK WALK?



FIRST NEST AT THE FOUR FEET CEILING.



CLOSE UP OF THE BABY SWIFTLET IN THE FIRST NEST.



SELF DESIGN HARVESTING RAILING SYSTEM


MONKEY HOUSE ENTRANCE HOLE



WATER POND ON THE ROOF TOP



CORNER COVER MADE OF CEMENT



CLOSE UP OF NEST MARKINGS