My Visit To A BH In Gurun Kedah!!!

This is a typical BH located in the middle of two  row of shop houses with about  five successful units.

The number of birds hovering above the unit were constantly plenty however the affected unit was closed to empty.

"Pak Harry I need your advise to bring those wild birds into the house and stay."

It was a pretty tiring weekend when I drove more then 800 kilometers just to visit more then 4 BH that have some kind of problems in getting those wild birds to stay.

The Gurun BH unit was a typical failed BH.  After operating for about 1.5 years the house was closed to be called empty.  Only about 10 nests and never multiplied.

I took the troubles to climb up to the roof and stayed there for about 20 minutes in the scotching heat.

Looking at the entrance hole direction plus evaluating those nearby successful BHs I told the owner that the hole were not facing the right target.  It was also too small.

First I told him to relocate the entrance hole.  Face it towards the direction with little blockages and towards a few successful BHs.

Make sure the hole is larger, perhaps 2.5 feet by 4 feet. Install adequate external sound tweeters at the hole and maybe include one hexagonal tower on the roof just above the entrance hole.

Inside the roving room he need to find ways to lure those birds to fly downward.  The best would be to install a water pond plus a suitable number of external sound tweeters.

From the roving into the nesting rooms I told him to enlarge the entrance door.  Perhaps relocate the entrance hole too.

The big problems lies in the way those nesting rooms were constructed.  They are opened wide with nothing in it.  No VIP rooms, very little number of tweeters, no fake nests, very little crossings, too bright, warm and a few more issues.

I am sure if the house is properly revamped those young birds will move in.

After the 45 minutes visit I hand written those things that he needed to do and hopefully will follow up with a proper report.

This is a typical BH with little success.  The BH can be said naked and with little accessories to make those young birds excited to stay.

Note:

Full 20 pages report plus more then 10 sketches submitted to the owner and he was speechless with what I asked him to do.

He need to use his brain more then getting those uncrupolous consultants to mess up his BH.