Garbage Truck Free : Rules Your Day !!!

One day I hopped in a taxi and took off for the airport.

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call,  'The Law of the Garbage Truck.' He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so ... Love the people who treat you right.   Pray for the ones who don't.   Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!   Have a blessed, garbage-free day!

A Positive Results From Someone Who Follow My Advise !!!

Some are willing to follow my advise but many are scared to.

There are so many people out there and many refuses to accept new ideas in getting more nests in their BH.

They prefer the conventional ways and any new techniques are taboos and cannot give results.

During my talk in Kota Kinabalu, I bravely mentioned about forced harvest technique.  On the next day it was brought up at Low Yat Forum saying that I am cruel and I am not right.

Well those who followed seem to have a totally different stories.

One called me and told me that he did at three of his BHs and to his surprised one of the unit produces a 70% increase in his nest population.  The other two was about 25%.

He called and said:  "Thank you Pak Harry.  I owed you one.  Please come to my town and I will give you the best dinner in town."

Yesterday I received this note from a person who asked for my advise.

He followed exactly what I wanted him to do and this was his reply:

Dear Harry,

Remember it was U that encouraged me to do force harvest through our e-mailing. 

I did follow your instruction and is very happy with the result.

If not for the disturbance of the owl , may be the result even better.

That i had told u the circumstances tru msn lately. i just harvest the nest, 81 altogether from 56 to 81 , that comes to 40% +.

  THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR UR PRECIOUS ADVICE.


I feel glad that he got what he was after.

My reminder to him was not to over use the force harvest. The best is once a year and try to do during the flying off time.

The Spiral Sound Platform Technique !!!

What do you think is wrong with a BH where those birds keep entering the opening, entrance hole,  but within a few seconds they rushed out?

One second they flew in and the next second they flew out.

Another interesting but similar was a BH owner who says: "Pak Harry they number of birds that enter the entrance hole were so many but there were not a single bird shit spot on the floor."

So what can be the possible reasons for such thing to happen?

I visited my of these types of BHs and my findings seem to zoom to the improper use of external sound tweeters.

Those birds that enters your BH were attracted to the sound you used to lure them from a far.

It is not that they love your BH per say but they were attracted to enter the entrance hole just because you played an attractive external sound.

The moment they entered the entrance hole they will passed those tweeter's base and will suddenly will lose the soothing sound that they came for.


What do you think those birds does when they loose the sound that they love to hear?

They will turn around and come out of the entrance hole.  This, I believed, is the real reason why they entered for one second and flew out within the next second.

So how can we solve this in and out problem?

Well you need to re look at those external sound tweeters arrangements to get those birds to continue they flying moves towards the far end of your BH.

You need to think of a way to install those external sound tweeters in a kind of stations and consistent in distances so that once the birds passed the first tweeter the next will take over the luring function.

If you can get this idea right I am sure those birds will enter and stay much longer then one second.

I was in Ayer Tawar Perak during the week end and visited a sizable green BH having more or less the same problem.

The BH was well designed and located below the flying paths. On the roof top they have a massive water pond that were well kept and those birds loves to come for a dip and sip.

The entrance into the BH was facing the wrong direction and the path into the various floors was a big shaft, 25 feet by 25 feet, top to bottom.

Those birds entered the house, according to the owner, but they will fly out as fast as they entered.

I make a very careful observations and I found that there were no follow up external sound tweeters on the tunnel's walls.

This could be the possible reason and I advise the owner to perhaps look into installing a spiral sound platforms that might help to pull those birds downwards.

The idea is to install the platforms as such that the tweeters on the platform will attract them to come lower and lower until the base of the tunnel.

This, hopefully, will help in luring the birds, at least into the tunnel.

If you need help to understand the configuration of this spiral platform technique please call 017 755 1318.

Those Things That I Discovered Part 1!!!

There were many interesting things that I discovered and wrote in my blog.

If you can duplicate those discoveries and apply them to your BH, I can safely say that you are on the way to your financial freedom.


Let me list them one by one and perhaps it can refresh your memory:

1) Use of "Fake Nests".

    I discovered this after attending a course in Pulau Kapas, Trengganu in 2008.  That was the first course I attended not as a participant but as a speaker.
   The main speaker was from Indonesia, Pak Hendry Mulia, and he gave a few interesting ideas on how to multiply those nests in your BH. One of topic was on the use of styro foam materials as fake nest.
   Then again you can use anything beside those Styrofoam.  Use can use those papers, wood strips, steel bar, coconut shell and many more.
  Nowadays you can but those ready made cup plastic or rubber fake nest that you can easily screwed onto the nesting plank.

2) Use more Internal and External Sound Tweeters.

   Most birdhouses, especially those that failed to produce good results, are in general installed with just the basic equipment.  It is like the contractor wanted to quickly finish the job and make as much profits as he can.
   One of the biggest mistake is to install as little tweeters as possible. 
   During one of my birdhouse inspection visit in Ipoh, I was told my the owner that his BH is not occupied by those birds after operating more then 6 months.
  The moment I entered the house I asked him to count the number of tweeters he installed on the ceiling and then I ask him to count the bird shit spots on the floor.
  His answer was it matched.  So I told him that you have a full house.  My idea was why don't you install more tweeters in your BH?  Is it too expensive?

3) External Sound Tweeters at the far end of the Nesting room.

  This was something that I never thought that important but it is.

 If you see bird shit only at the roving areas then you should try to install at least two external sound tweeters at the back of your nesting room.

During one visit to Muar, Johore, one BH owner who invited to his BH told me that before asking me to come over he followed my advise.  "Pak Harry your idea on the external sound tweeters inside the nesting room works.  I have been having lot of problems before but now I proved your theory right."

4) The Creation of VIP room.

VIP room was something which I discovered during many visits to BHs.

It seem that those birds love to stay hidden in a room as compared to nesting in the open.

Last year while in Seberang Prai, a BH owner wanted to show me his 8 months old BH.  From the outside the activities on his rooftop was marginal.  When we entered the BH, we still found very little activities in the roving and the main hall.

The moment we entered a room at the far end, we were shocked.  There were at least 200 bird hiding at the back of the house inside room.

Again in Rompin, Pahang, the same thing happened and it make a very good sense to create at least one room in your BH.  This room I termed as VIP room.

5) The "Happy Hours Corner"

This was my latest discovery.  I came face to face with those birds flocking at those rows of tweeters inside the VIP room playing the external sound.
I stumbled into this unusual phenomena in a BH which I am looking after just last week.
When I took charge I rewired the whole room but due to this odd shape corner I decided to put tweeters to play external sound inside the VIP room.
The number of birds flocking in this area was fantastic.

6) The Black Cloud External sound.

I vividly remembered the day I bought this sound from a guy who until today is still supplying me with new sounds.
In the beginning I was never attracted to the sound but after getting a few test run the number of birds responded was unusual and the best was that nearly every person who used the sound says that it was very good.
This was when I coined the word "Black Cloud".
Until today it is still one of the top sound in my collection.

7) Use Different wires for your VIP room.

Again this new discovery happened when I was asked to check a strange behavior of birds that suddenly flocked at one corner of a three stories BH.
The moment I entered this BH I slowly walked towards the area crowded with birds(about 50 plus birds).
 I stood below them and realized that that ceiling area there were sound while the rest of the BH was without any sound.
My conclusion was that swiftlet loves to stay in a group.  They feel safe in numbers.  Having those tweeters with loud sound makes the birds believed that there are many of them in that corner.
The lesson here is that if we know how to capitalized in this sound usage we can actually make those birds stay where ever that we wished to.
We can now plan where they should stay.

8) Soundless Humidifiers.

I was introduced to this soundless humidifier a few short months ago.

In the beginning I was not fascinated with what it can do.  Yes it is very quite and better then those chicken coop humidifiers.
Thing changed when I was shown the nests produced under the influence of soundless humidifier.

  I was shown two pieces of nest before and after.  The crystal cleared white colored nest was unusual and fantastic. I was totally convinced that this is something good to the industry.

9) The Baby King.

The most powerful internal sound that not only make the birds to stay but also activate them to mate.

The sound can be used as external sound too.

10) The proper positioning of LAL.

The Lubang Antara Lantai (LAL) is where the birds migrate to the lower part of your building.

To me a good BH design is where the birds will start their nesting on the lowest floor and not on the top most floor.

To achieve this your LAL positioning need to be properly chosen and wide enough .  My discovery about this is to place the LAL just after the entrance door between the roving area and the nesting room. 

Your key criteria is to ensure that 100% of the birds that enter the BH must pass above the LAL whenever they fly inside or out of the nesting rooms.

11) The Angle of flying down to the lower floors should be 45* and not 90*.

When you construct a BH with many floors, you first mission is how to get those birds to fly down to the lowest floor smoothly without sharp turnings.

I came to the conclusion that the best method is to arrange the LAL on the various floor to be slanting so that the birds can fly downward at 45*.

By this method you also allow enough light to shine to the lowest floor.  Remember birds needs light to find their way out of the house in the morning.

Try not to opt for ziz-zag design.


12) Face the Entrance Hole To The East.

My preferred direction of the entrance hole is towards the morning sun.  The reason being the birds when they wakes up in the morning use the morning sun to guide them out of the house.

If your BH entrance hole face the west, those birds will not stay at the lowest floor.  This is due to the fact that they tend to wake up late and has little food out there.

I have personally answered questions from people who called and told me that their BH seem to have nests mainly near to the roving areas.

I told them that your BH entrance hole was facing the West.  In second the owner will tell me " H0w the hell do you do that? You have never visited my BH before!"

Yes staying closed to the roving areas will allow them to wake up early and rush out for food as early as possible.  Staying further away from the entrance hole will make them to wake up late everyday.

13) Use the 4 meters by 4 meters room size rule.

Most people do not take any notice of this 4 meters by 4 meters rule.

The birds when turning need enough space to turn.  If those rooms are too small they have difficulties to maneuver and might hit the walls.

Once they hit the walls they will hurt themselves and normally will die.  In the wild you cannot effort to be sick or injured.

So when you design your BH make sure the 4 meters by 4 meters rule is adhered to all the time unless not possible.

14) The size of your BH main entrance hole.

The entrance size do play a major role in enticing those birds to enter your new BH.

When designing the entrance hole you need to allow not only three birds to enter at one time but you need additional room for those tweeters.

If you placed two tweeter, one each at the sides, the space taken will make the hole very small.

Too big will land you with to much air flow and to much light.

My recommendation is to use the 2.5 feet wide and 3 feet long.  This should be the minimum size.

15) External Sound Playing time.

How long should the external sound to be played?

I came to the conclusion that you need to start the external sound as early as the dawn breaks and you may want to add one to one and the half hour after sundown to shut it off.

In Peninsular Malaysia you should start somewhere at around 6.45 am and shut at about 8.30pm.

It seem that there are always late comers who happened to know that in the last hour of sunlight there are lots of insects in the air.

16) Be precise on what sound to play at what time of the day.

This is something that I discovered.  If you wanted to extend the effectiveness of your precious sound, you need to use them only at the peak time.

What is a peak time?  Well the answer is just observe the crowd at the entrance hole and you will get the answer.

All that you need is to schedule the sound to be played at those peak hours and the rest of the time play other sounds that you consider as pretty good but not as powerful as the main sound.

17) All Sounds Must Be Profiled and lengthen to 1 hour duration.

To ensure a smooth transition from one sound to the other you need to profile all sounds that you collected and keep in your sound library.

If you profile them, using suitable software, you can assured yourself that every time you change those sounds there is no sudden volume variation at those tweeters.

18) Use Anticlockwise Design.

When your use those monkey house design on your roof top, try to place the entrance hole to the right hand side of the wall facing the flight path.

I discovered that most of them tends to make anticlockwise turning during any of those bird call tests.

On the average about 60% will turn anticlockwise will the balance the opposite.

Try to avoid putting the entrance hole is the middle of the monkey house wall.  I assume that your monkey house is 4 meters by 4 meters in dimension.

19) Using Forced Harvest to Increase your Nest Population.

I discovered that many BHs that were burglarized tends to multiply the nests by at least 20%.

There are no specific reasons why but the core issue is that the nests tend to increase substantially.

My idea is, if you wanted to increase your nest population, you might want to conduct a force harvest at least once a year.

Try to choose the right timing to minimize the loss of eggs and those young babies.

20) Trans Location Technique.

This special technique, if you can master the breeding of those baby birds, can be a very important weapon to populate any BH that are not having enough nests in their BH.

The method was successfully carried out in Sabah and there is no reasons why it should be ignored.

There are people who are currently breeding young birds and all you need to do is to buy them when they are at 43 days old and release them in your BH.

If you get 10% of what you released, it is good enough.  Do 10 times and you can get 100%.

Tough When You Are Trying To Help !!!

Today started my day with picking up my helper to follow me to visit two of BHs that need some modifications.

The birds entered but after a few weeks never returned, according to the owner.

Well I brought with me a new bazooka attached to a single bullet tweeter and installed at one of the house.  After the installation works observed how effective it was.

Very encouraging and I would like to make a full report about this special gadget soon.  Let me use it for a few weeks and monitor the house nests population increments.  If this gadget can brings in more birds into the BH why not?

Also opened the doors into the VIP room bigger.

Told the owner to give a few more weeks for some results.

Came back and finished a few visit reports and answering so many emails.

The most difficult were those who happened to already start their BH construction then ask for your opinion.

"Kepala Pusing" is my description of the problems they have.  Some without any sketch of the BH but some with 3D figures that are full of errors.

There were a number who wanted a check on their current sounds and again they are using two in one.  The external on the left and internal of the right.

It makes you confirmed how bad their knowledge are.  The more that you try to help the more you feel that what ever you do were never followed.

To those who wanted to build your dream BH please be a bit more serious with your project.

Make sure you get all the plans and drawing done properly and perhaps an experience swiftlet sifu to confirm that they are okay.

Even better if you get at least two sifus to give their opinions.  One head is better then one.

Remember you need those drawing done because one day when you are required to submit to the local council they will insist on these drawings.

Be more participative and do not allow your contractor to do every thing without your input.

In the afternoon received a call from one BH owner who wanted me to revamp his BH in Subang.  Shortly after that a guy who wanted to meet up to talk about his solar technology called.

This Friday need to visit a new BH in Bentong that will be completed and need some imput on the sound system.

The weekend need to be in Sabak Bernam to inspect a BH then to Setiawan/Ayer Tawar to visit a BH that is not doing well.

On Sunday need to drive back via Taiping to meet up with someone who wanted to show something interesting that he installed in his BH.

A New Discovery : "The Happy Hours Corner" !!!

I am sure all of you are looking forward for something new that can helps in getting those birds to stay in your new BH.

There are not many people out there who are willing to share their findings and we need to get our act together for the sake of the Swiftlet Industry.

This was the latest discovery that was discovered today during one of my BH visit.

Remember about my idea of creating the VIP room?

My idea was to create a secluded room on one of the floor that will give the birds the right humidity, temperature and darkness.

This idea if you follow exactly to what I described in my articles before it to be will divert those birds entering into your new BH to stay and build their nests.

You need to install as many internal sound tweeters as possible and these specially designed (preferable bullet type) tweeters shall be wired as such that you can control the volume independently. Rough estimate is the number of corners times two.

The room shall have a partitioning, floor up to the ceiling with a door not smaller then 2.5 feet.

To lure the birds into this VIP room is to ensure that you mount at least two medium sized tweeters playing external sound on the door plank, 6 feet from the floor.

Inside the VIP room you also need to install at least two medium sized tweeters for the same external sound played at the door.

This is where the Happy Hours Corner was accidental created.

I took charge in the tweeters installation in a BH located in Kepong about 5 months ago.

Due to the odd shape of the VIP room, there was one small corner that could not fit my plan.  Due to that I decided to install about 10 tweeters facing the entrance door but perpendicular to the rest of the tweeters in the room. (Please double click on the picture to enlarge the picture attached)

These 10 tweeters, located at this odd corners, I wired them to a single line and connected to my external sound amplifier.

I was just curious to see what will happen if I play only external sound for this special part of the VIP room.

Today during my visit, for maintenance, I saw something that I could not believed my eyes.

The number of birds hanging on those 10 tweeters were many, much more then on those internal sound tweeters.

I believed that they were so attracted to the external sound I played and wanted to stay there forever.

I now will call this special zone as "Happy Hours Corner".

This new discovery, if properly installed, will ensure a high percentage of those birds to stay and becoming your permanent tenant.

From today this special Happy Hours Corner shall be in all my BH design.

Patented and no one should copy this beautiful idea. He he he he .........

I will be presenting this idea on how to use the Happy Hours Corners in my next monthly Seminar in Kuala Lumpur. All you need to do is to attend the one day seminar and you will get the precise details on how to design and to install in you own BH at no additional fee.

A new discovery and you can now reduce your failure rate instantly.

This new finding shall be yours if you follow the right steps of selecting corner and install the external sound tweeters correctly.

Very Crucial: Positioning Of External Sound Tweeters !!!

I just arrived from Jerantut, Pahang after a visit to a newly build BH on an Agricultural land on the outskirt of Jerantut town.

Last week was contacted by a newbie who can no longer see the sadness on his father's face when his 300K newly build BH was not having any birds inside.

Though the house was recently put into operation mode, they sense something funny when there were  so many birds visiting the entrance area but the number of bird shit spots inside their BH were just too little.

I was asked to drive down to Jerantut and make my observation and provide solutions.

Well, since I happened to be free,I accepted the offer but first I need to drive more then 2.3 hours from KL.

As usual the things that I discovered were nothing new:

1) It was very clear that the contractor or consultant who erected the BH was in a rush to complete, put it in operation and then never turn up to fine tuned the BH.

2) The building structures were well done but his knowledge on the precise positioning of  the hexagonal, external and internal  tweeters were not seen. This is what I told the owner, not many contractors can be giid in everything.  If they are good in construction they might have difficulties to understand how to fix those sound system.

3) Due to  a rushing job and with very little knowledge on those precious swiftlet characteristics, the consultant place those tweeters, especially external sound, wrongly.

4) The BH was bare with only those basic equipment.  Something like wearing just a pair of stocking and underwear but no shirt and pants.

5) No external sound tweeters inside the BH except at the LAL. This was the main cause why those birds refuse to enter the BH.

6) There number of internal sound tweeters are normal but he tend to be happy with those cluster tweeters.

7) All those 90* corners were covered with corner covers.

8) No fake nests being installed on any nesting planks in the BH.

9) The BH was not masked with enough ammonia gas (bird shit smell).  The cement smell was too strong.

10) The LAL positioning on the higher floor to the 1st floor was too far from the entrance door from the roving to the nesting room.  The sizable gap allows those birds to jump Que and not flying above the LAL.

11) The contractor opted for a ziz-zaz  LAL positioning pattern.  To me this design is not suitable and difficult to populate the lowest floor. Better to go straight at a 45* angle from top to the bottom floor.

12) There were a few half partitioning structures on each floor however the reasons for constructing the partitioning were no meaning.

13)  The contractor installed a few chicken coop humidifiers and the power source to activate all the humidifiers was via a humidity controller.  I was surprised that the setting was not proper and the plug used was on the wrong point.

14) The amplifiers used was not properly chosen.  The volume knob to control the left and right volume level was on the "Balance" mode.

15) The contractor have very little knowledge on the BH sound engineering.  He got this notion that the external should be played, internally, for 24 hours. As such he installed two amplifiers to fit his believes.

16) The temperature sensor shows a maximum temp reading of 34*C.  This was very disturbing.  I took it as if he must have carried the temperature hygrometer outside and forgot to reset.

17) There was only one external sound to be played daily and no other sounds were provided to the owner to substituted if they become in effective.

The above are nothing unusual.  I would say that nearly all failed BHs shows exactly similar characteristics.

If you have something similar to the above, I would say that you will soon have to get Pak Harry to come over to reconfirm the exact similar situation.

After visiting, a good mother's day dinner and the next morning roti chanai breakfast, I quickly wrote a report , about 10 pages, to the owner.

Beside the above, I the following interesting events that I would like to share with all my blog reader:

1) There was a stand alone BH about 500 feet away from the visited BH that plays "Duress" sound everyday.

2) I managed to view a very successful BH in Jerantut.  Took some video clips.  The number of birds rushing into this BH was very interesting.

3) While conducting the sound tests, another BH owner just a fence away, walked up and greet me.  Are you Pak Harry?  Yes I told him.  He confessed that he reads my blog everyday.  Pak Harry Can I purchase the "Baby King" from you.  I got many birds inside but they refuse to build their nests.

I hope the above write up gives you interesting things to learn.

I am very happy to be of service to the two BH owners.  I will be submitting a full report tonight.

If you wish to read this report, you can.  Just donate RM50 to a nominate account the report is yours.

Small Group But We Have A Good Day !!!

The Seminar at Sentral Hotel, yesterday, went well.

The number of people attended was not many but we have a wonderful time together and managed to visit a BH in operation in Kepong KIP.

Most of the participants were from East Malaysia.

The seminar started at 9.00 am and we visited a BH at 11.00 am.  Came back for a buffet lunch at the hotel.

After the lunch break we covered a few interesting topics that were new and interesting.

Well the participants were glad to be given the opportunity to visit a BH in operation.

All in all they got what they came for.

A Newbie From Sabah, A Way To Learn !!!

There is nothing better then to get one unit of the bird call gadget to learn about those wild swiftlets.

I was recently contacted by a newbie from Sabah, Malaysia and he was very keen to learn as much as he can about swiftlet farming.

After some email exchanges I told him that the best thing to do for the beginning is to get a unit of the bird call gadget and carry it around in his car boot.

He was so serious and followed my sincere advise. The very same day he remitted the money, RM 750 (4 Tweeters type), and I couriered a unit to his mailing address.

The moment he got hold of the gadget he wanted to go straight to those lands that he wanted to purchase.
I told him to hold on. Get some basics on how to properly use the gadget.

My recommendation to him was to go to the nearest BH and conduct a small test in one of the car park (open car park).

"You need to at least learn the correct way on how to use the gadget. What you need to do now is to insert the power cord into your car cigarette lighter. Switch on the car battery and observe gadget.

There will be some numbers on the digital screen and that shows you that the reader is working. Now switch the MP3 amplifier on and you will see a green light.

Okay put the "Low" knob to lowest and the "High" knob to about 3.00pm. Put the volume to zero first and slowly increase the volume.

Put the gadget on your car roof and look what happen above."

You need to now do some work.

1) Count the number of birds that come over and circle about your car
2) Look at their body size and the overall length of their wings of tip to tip.
3) Look at their feather's color. It is black, brown or any other color and do they have sany spot at the back of the body?
4) Where are are coming from?
5) Do they fly, the majority, on clockwise or anticlockwise
6) Do all of them stay put or after some minutes they flew away?

After about 20 minutes you may shut the gadget off. Now look where those birds will fly to.

Only after getting this first rehearsal you may want to proceed with the those lands.

Well not bad, he now seems to be learning very fast. Read this email just received this morning:

Quote:
Hi Harry
The bird call gadget worked fine.
I have tested the gadget near a birdhouse In Penampang. The birdhouse is a 2-storey shop house with 2 bird entrance holes at the front and 2 at the back of the shop house.

The swiftlets came after the gadget was on and the numbers increased. I could not count the number of birds because I was in between 2 rows of shop houses and the swiftlets appear to be more adult size.

They flew in anti-clockwise and some would swoop lower towards our car where the gadget was.
The 1st test was carried out near a friend's house on top of a hill abt 8km from KK city. It was abt4.45pm. and after a rain shower. There is a lake abt 1km from the test area which is hilly and with a fair bit of trees.

Even before switching on the gadget, there were a few swiftlets flying nearby. After switching on, more swiftlets came and it was abt 30 birds. They seem to fly in from a NE to E direction (which was direction of the Crocker Range mountains.

The swiftlets flew in an anti-clockwise direction and above trees level. I noticed that the birds were of small size maybe not full adult size.

The 2nd test was carried out near an abandoned paddy field next to a river with plenty of trees near a secondary jungle. It was abt 5.40pm and abt 6-7km from the 1st test area.
I noticed there were some big birds flying on and off.

After switching on the gadget, some swiftlets appeared further away from us. I think it may be due to the bigger birds flying around.

The birds appear to come from a NE to E direction.

We then proceeded to go to the direction where the birds were seen and coming from. This was abt 1-2km away and we did our 3rd test.

The 3rd test was also near some abandoned paddy fields but there were some vegetable farms nearby with houses and an area with some trees. It was an open area and the time was abt. 6.10pm.

As we arrived there were already swiftlets flying overhead but not near our car.
We switched on the gadget and more birds appeared and some seem to come from a NE to E direction ie. from the hills direction.

There was some 30 or more birds and they flew in an anti-clockwise direction.

The birds were bigger and more adult size compared to Test-site 1. Some birds swooped down lower towards the car where the gadget was playing.

Will carry out more tests in more areas and do further comparison.

What else do you think I have missed out during the tests.
Rgds.

Unquote:

Those who wish to start your journey into swiftlet farming, my sincere advise is to follow this person foot steps.

He is doing the right thing and in this way those unscrupulous "Sifu" will not cheat you that easy.
You can test anytime and anywhere that you wanted to.

Every test you conduct teaches you something new.

The more you learn about them the better you will become. More focus, more knowledge and make lesser mistakes.....

Extra Two IR Lights For Clearer Pictures !!!

If you happened to use CCTV cameras in your BH and the pictures taken are too fuzzy what will be the best alternative?

I was looking around for some new gadgets in KL and saw this "Battle Star Galactica Space Ship" shape camera.

Hmm .... It surely looks very unusual and upon closer inspection I seem to realised that the camera comes with two additional IR lights at its side.

I told the shop owner to link it up and show how sharp the pictures from it.

He was very kind and proceed with the instruction.

I can see the different.  Those that are with no IR and with standard IR light were not as sharp as this new set.

I bought a set and looking forward to install in one of those BH that I am looking after.

The price is about RM350 a unit ex Kuala Lumpur..

For more information call 017 755 1318 or email you enquiries to harryswiftlet@yahoo.com

The True and New Generation of External Birdcall Sounds !!!

I was looking forward to something new that might or perhaps will be the standard of all BHs in Malaysia.

All these while those so called "Sifus" or "Consultants" will advise us that we need to play only one external sound from the break of the morning sun until sunset.

So we blindly follow their "stupid" advises and keep hoping that those birds will enter our BH and will take up their residency in it.

The moment the house was put into operation mode, we will be visiting our BH nearly everyday to see the so call birds actions infront of our BH entrance hole.

On the first day those birds seem to crowd around  the external tweeters.  Some will rush in and some will rush out.  Looking at those birds movement makes us very happy and adore our "Sifu".

Well after a few days the number of birds playing at the entrance hole keep diminishing until one day we find that those birds are no longer attracted to the same sound being played over and over again.

Then we called our "Sifu" and told him the diminishing "Phenomena".  He response is simple "Don't Worry They will be coming back." or "Sorry I am not free to attend to your BH."

Frankly those birds did not come back and we starts to get very worried.  "What the hell is happening. How come no more birds flying around the entrance hole?"

Okay since our sifu is no longer giving the right solution we need to turn to Pak Harry !!!

Pak Harry, my BH have been in operation for almost 6 months but there is no birds attracted to the sound any longer.  Do you have a solution?

Well this is one of the reason why we need to find a suitable solution.  There will be lots of new BHs having a similar problem but until today we have no specific solution.  The only solution in hand now is to change to another good sound.

Yes that can last for another a few days.

Is there a better solution?  We need something that can last at least 6 to 8 month or better still one year.

I strongly believed that there are but most of us tends to always look at the negative side of any new inventions.

I have recently introduce the sound Auto Changer and setting of multiple sounds to be played at precise time of the day.

Not many wanted to even ask for more information.  They think that it is too expansive and cannot work. If you compare with the cost of your BH (say RM250,000) and the Auto Changer plus those 4 new generation sounds (about RM5,000) is about 2% of your overall cost. This is a very low investments which can brings in more nests then any other BHs in your area.

I think you should take a shot at it and I can bet with you that your BH will be far superior to your next door neighbors.

I have started to test at a few locations and with a few fine tuning I think my neighbours will feel the heat.

My latest compilation of precise time sounds are on the way.  Currently already completed 9 sets of beautiful medley that plays from 6:30 am till 8:30pm. I called them as New Generation External Sound. Each with at least 5 effective sounds arranged as such those birds will not get bored with the sounds.

The New Generation compilation is suitable to be used with the sound auto changer gadget.

The list so far is as follows: 1) Sri Sabah 2) SriSibu 3) SriPahang 4) SriMelaka 5) Sri Terubong 6) SriSeremban 7) SriGantang 8) Sri Merbok 9) SriJerantut. Each is RM950 only

All you need to do is to set your digital timer to run from 6:30 am and stop at 8:30pm you have a peaceful day ahead.

For a more effective method, my advise to you is to consider having the auto changer as one of your BH gadget.

Birdhouse Aroma: Canister Type !!!

A newly introduced aroma in canister spray can.

I never thought that one day BH aroma can come in canister and smell like a normal perfume.

All this while you need to put on a proper attire plus mask to prevent those faulty smell aroma from depositing on your body when you carry out the spraying.

With this new technology it change the whole arena.

The canister looks similar to those aroma cans that you use to freshen your house rooms, office or toilets.

If you are the innovative type you can actually insert the can into a spray timer that will spray your VIP room on an interval of say 5 minutes.

Each canister can spray about 2,800 times and you need to replace the can once empty.

Using this canister type will make aroma application much easier and more practical.

You can hang the timer with the canister in it anywhere in the house but must be about 70cm below the nesting planks or 90 cm away from the entrance hole.

To make it more effective you should try to install about three canisters inside the VIP room and one in the main hall plus one more in the roving areas.

The only setback is that it is pretty expensive, about RM 190 per canister and limited stock.

I hope to try this new and brilliant idea.  If it works why not.

Remember we cannot simply give up if there is not birds coming to stay in your BH.

If you are keen to try some please call 017 755 1318.

Three Interesting Events & Messages !!!

Among the many things that happened during the week I need to record the followings:

1) Swiftlet Farming Guidelines To Be out By Week After Next:

I was invited to have dinner with SWIFIN President.  He was in Kuala Lumpur attending an AGM of Malaysian Swiftlet Association at Sunway hotel.  According to him Dato Beh reassured all those who attended the AGM that the guideline will be tabled to the cabinet this coming week.  

2) Trans location For Sabahan.

This is something interesting received from a blog reader who resided in Tawau.  He confirmed that the Translocation operation were successfully carried out in Sabah.  He happened to visit the BH that performed the Trans location exercise.

More encouraging is that all Sabahan birdhouse owner can use the service of the Sabah Wildlife Department to get not more then 50 baby birds each per year.  You need to get yourself registered with the department and wait for your turns.

3) Reused Of Black Cloud Sound.

A BH owner in Kepala Batas, Seberang Prai, wrote to me about his recent discovery that happened at his BH.

He used the Black Cloud sound about a few months earlier but not very encouraging.  So he decided to used the Tongkat Ali and the other sounds instead.

However this weekend he switched to Black Cloud and he was surprised with the result.  Read this:

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Hi Pak Harry,

I have retested the Black Cloud this morning, the response is seems to be a lot better as compared to a few months back testing result, the birds seems to response well to BC now, just wonder why now different, anyway I have now hooked up BC to my external sound and will check out the result in a mth later, I must adjusted something right at my amplifier, can see quite many birds entered the BH and this has not happened before ! Just for sharing, thanks.

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