What About Using Those Birdshits To Benefit Your BHs?

After reading my article about why you should not sell your bird house Birdshit to your neighbour, you might think of trowing them into the lake.
No, you should not do that.

What about using them for your own benefits?

How to Harry?

I mentioned that those young swiftlets will tend to move to the BH where there shits were moved to.

If this theory is right then you might start using them for your own benefits and as follows:

1) Well if you have a new BH in the same vicinity, you can move those young birds over to the new building. As such your new BH will be populated much faster.

2) You might want to move those birdshits to a different floor of your building where they grew up. Say they grew up in the first floor, you move their shits to the lowest floor. See what happened.

3) You might want to be nice with your neighbor who owned a successful BH. Tell him you would like to help him to clear all his BH birdshits. Take all his house Birdshits and move them to your new BH. I am sure those young birds will move to your BH without the owner's knowledge.
(Hope he will not read my blog.)

4) You might want to spy on your neighbors activities. Check on when he will clear those birdshit and once he did that follow him to the spot that he disposed them. If he sells it to a shop, you quickly buy them up and place them in your BH.....

5) You should try to befriend your neighbors BH caretaker. Tell him that you are willing to pay him a handsome money for those birdshits that he clears from his boss BH. Once you get those shits you are actually getting those young birds too......

Well I hope the above suggestions are of help but just don't tell any one about our top secret story about birdshit......

Styrofoam Nests: I Will Be Installing Lots Of Them This Weekend!!!

I will be going back to Sungai Patani this weekend. Have an important work to do at my birdhouse. At the same time attending Father's-In-Law Birthday.

One of my main objective is to install as many styrofoam fake nests as possible in my Birdhouse this weekend.

My idea is to place the stryrofoam strips at one corner of the ground floor and the balance at the upper floor.

Last few weeks have been collecting these styrofoam used for my nasi lemak meals and cut them into small strip of 5 inch by 1 inch. I have at least 50 of them to be installed.

Bought a heavy duty staple plus bullets, the bigger size, so that I can easily fix them on the wooden roofing.

Hopefully by my next trip, the young birds will be able to use them as their place to built their nests.

For your information young birds who have little experiences in building any nest before find that these fake nests allows them to get the confident in building their first nests. There were many sifus who recommended, especially Pak Hen Mulia, in using this cheap and easily available materials.

At the same time I wud like the house to be fully occupied. Currently most of my tenants prefer to nest at the lowest floor at the back of the room. This might be due to ideal temperature and humidity.

They tend to cluster together and do not want to built on the higher floor or other corner/parts of the ground floor.

I need to lure these young birds to start their nests at these inhibited areas.

There is nothing wrong to try and will monitor it's result.