"Pak Harry, my BH is situated in a very crowded area with many successful BHs. How can I attract those birds to stay in my BH?"
My frank answer was get a good sound !!! A set of good sounds will be of great help, I told him.
This is why I always reminded all my blog readers to start a sound library and get you hands on all the good bird call sounds available in the market.
If you are in the middle of a very crowded place, example in a walet central, you only ammunition will those good sounds available in your collection.
Yes, start your collection even prior to having your BH up.
One more important advise is to purchase those sound from reliable sources. If the person you are dealing with is respectable and with video clips to support the birds reaction when the sound being played it will be much better.
Even it is good in one place it might not be at your location.
To avoid wastage you might want to perhaps have the person with the good sound collection to come over and conduct the sound test one by one using your BH sound's system.
Pay him a fee and let him test all those good sounds in his collection.
While he did the testing you do yourself a favor to observe the reactions of those wild birds.
Everytime he changes the sound ask him to shout the new sound name and if any particular sound is effective you shout for him affirmation on the name of the sound being played.
You need to have a small note pad and a pen to scribble what you saw, how many birds responded, how many minutes they started to surface and do they enter your BH entrance hole.
Give your rating for each sound.
Once he have completed with all the sound that he has, you can then choose which one to be replayed. Yes play those that you rated the best.
Play them for the second time to reconfirm their effectiveness.
Once you finished and they do bring lots of birds to your BH and most of them started to enter the entrance hole, you can then purchase them.
Start with at least three of the top sounds and the rest you can consider at a later date.
Adopting this technique will safe yourself a pretty amount of money. You can be sure that the sound you just purchased were good and effective at your BH.
It will better if the sound you have selected can pull all those birds that are frequenting your neighbors BHs. Just imagine you got one or two that when you played all the birds in the vicinity will drop their interested in going home but come over to your entrance hole?
Remember you current technique by buying from a third party who claimed that their sounds are effective can be a big waste of money. The chances of each sound to be effective at your BH is slim. It could be just 20%.
Since a good collection of sounds is one of the most important part of your swiftlet farming activities, my suggestion is to allocate a reasonable amount of fund to it.
Good example: If you forked out RM400,000 to build your BH, allocate at least 3 to 5 % towards starting up your sound library. Remember an expansive new BH without good sound being played will be like a dead body. No heart beat, not blood flowing in their system can be translated as a dead BH. Oh dear !!!
Make the right decision and start your sound library immediately !!!!
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