On my way back from Kedah to KL I took a detour to Seri Manjung, Perak.
The idea was to make some observations on Seri Manjung birdhouses and how they are doing.
I was very lucky to have a few of my blog readers were looking forward to meet me. They have a hidden agenda. They wanted me to take a close look at one of the BH that they purchased a few hours ago.
We met at one of the electronic shop in seri manjung and proceeded for lunch. All these three are x Navy.
After a good lunch I was taken to their newly acquired BH. It was not that bad but the number of nests were not that encouranging. The aroma smell was none, the humidity and tempreture sensors were none, no humidifier around,all the ventilation holes were opened, Tweeters at the entrance hole was only two, Two entrance holes, Not lights being install on the roof areas, No additional sound on the roof, the house use only one sound (internal sound for both the external and internal), number of tweeters were too low, the type of tweeters used were those for the external, the direction of tweeters install were haphazard, some areas were with no sound or even tweeters, upstairs too many walls, the data room consist of only one amplifier and there were a lot more that were not right.
To my suprised, that even the BH was not a five stars, the number of birds in the house was about 200 (I was given the opportunity to enter the house at 9pm).
Just imagine if the house is upgraded to a Five Stars BH?
I need to make a special report on what they should do and hopefully before the end of the year the nests number will increase to perhaps 100.
As for Seri Manjung BHs, I am amused with the number of BHs in this small shop houses area. In total there were about 14 rows of shop house. Each row there were about 12 shops. So the total is in the region os 168. Out of this half were converted to BHs.
The most successful belongs to a person Named John Wang (not sure the last name). A three units shops and using the top entry both on the upper and lower floors.
The number of kilograms per month was said to be around 20 to 30 kilos.
I was very curious and wanted to observe the number of birds coming home to roost.
During most part of the day, the number of birds flying around the entrance holes were not that many. Sometime I wonder if it was true that the house produce that much of nests per month.
Well you should see when the time draws near to 8pm (sundown). At around 7pm you can see the crowd starts to come back. The number grew by the minutes and at around 7.35pm to 7.50pm the place were full of birds jumping straight into those holes. They acted like a huge suction pipe of a vacuum cleaner.
It masmerised me and I just could not take my eyes out of the scene.
While that was happening I took note of which directions the birds were coming back. It seem that they are coming from all directions. Amazing and increadable.
Since they come from all directions you can imagine the benefits derived from those who convert their shop houses to BHs.
These birds seem to fly in into other BHs and they seem to be willing to spread the wealth with those around the most successful unit.
Hmm..... I was wondering how can one be very successful to capitalise on such a scene.
My opinions (I might not be 100% right) are as follows:
1) Get one that is very closed to the successful unit.
2) Make sure the path taken by those birds, maximum traffic flow, are just above the unit.
3) Use the exact type of entrance hole(s) used by the successful unit.
4) Make sure your BH is tuned microhabitatly to be similar to the successful unit, internally. ( How do I know the inside of the succesful unit? Use your imagination my friend. Just imagine how much shits there are on the floor and how smelly is the whole house)
5) Use the same type of sound like his if you can. (Harry how to copy his Sound? My question: Do you need some rocket scientist to tell you how to do it?)
6) Look at the external lighting used on the successful BH and copy exactly like his.
7) Install a CCTV camera to monitor the progress of the house.
8) Look at all the ways to increase the number of birds circling above your BH. It there is a will there is a way.
9) If you can draw them up on the roof, why can't you pull them into your BH? Do something. Find the right combination of sound and the aroma to lure them in.
10) Once they have entered and stay in the house, you now need to excite them to mate. They will only start building those precious nests if they start mating !!!
11) Do not leave it to GOD to turn your house to be the best BH in that area. You need to work on it.
Well I hope you got my points and dare to be different.
If you are not sure then why can't you call Harry (017 755 1318) the crazy guy in town who seem to know everything. He either know too much or the most crazy guy in town.
