BH Visit Somewhere At Carey Island, Klang !!!

(This is not the BH mentioned in this article)

Yesterday Jan 8th 2015 visited this three stories high BH located somewhere at Carey Island.

The owner wanted to erect a few more BHs around the same place and wanted my opinions on where to erect them.

At the same time he already erected one unit which he claimed to be with 60 nests after 1.5 years into operation.

I visited the ready and operating BH just to have a look.

Quite pleased with the design and the nesting planks arrangements.

However I pointed a few things which can help to get more new tenants into the BH.

My fist focal point was on the entrance hole areas.

The number of external sound tweeters were just too simple and little.

A hexagonal tweeter and perhaps a mini bazooka might help to lure more birds into this BH.

My second point of concern was the nest distribution on the two floors (ground floor was converted into house for his workers).

The number of birds seems to be more on the top most floor while the middle floor was lesser.

I told the owner that event though the LAL was well positioned but there was little external sound tweeters to guide those wild birds to the lower floor.

Frankly the external sound tweeters were only installed at the entrance hole areas and the LAL.

There was not a single external sound tweeters inside the nesting rooms or at the door of the rooms.

A common mistake which can be easily modified.

The BH nesting planks arrangements were fined but all those 90* corners were covered with those curved corner covers.

There was not a single fake nest installed and the number of internal sound tweeters were marginal (about 90 pieces).

Each floor was with two humidifiers and both were using the standard timer setting and not those humidistat.

I advised them to upgrade to using humidistat if they wanted their BH to be precisely wet.

The internal sound amplifiers were set on 1 hour times 1 hour.  The two amplifiers rotate its function.

I prefer the 12 X 12 hours rotation.

At night the sound volume should be higher.

The internal sound was without any baby bird sound.

He is using those colony sound and not something like babyking or superbabyking.

I told him to change the internal sounds, like superbabyking, to make sure every new tenants of his can quickly mate and pay their rental.

There were many markings on the floor as compared to the number of nest erected, I told him.

"Dato if you look at some of those bird shit markings on your floor, they seems to be very thick however there were no sign of nest erected." my precise words used.

What I was trying to tell the BH owner was that he got more tenants who are now building their nests.

The possible reasons can be the followings:

1) The internal sound was not good enough.  The colony sound is not strong enough to make them feel like mating.

2) They might be having problem with their saliva glands.  They cannot produce enough saliva and he need to assist them by installing fake nests jest below every marking found on the nesting planks.

3) The BH nesting rooms darkness was not adequate.  He need to put up a few more partitions to block those bright light.

I tested two external sounds and the moment played a number of birds came to entrance hole and that makes the owner feel excited.

Plan to list a number of things for his to do if he wanted to increase the number of nests inside his BH.

Broga BH Now Is In Full Swing !!!

After more than 6 months the owner called to confirm that his BH is finally ready to run in full blown.

After my first visit about 5-6 months ago I submitted about 27 pages report for him to do some kind of revamp.

The owner diligently put every effort to his BH and finished as per my recommendations.

One good thing that he experienced during the revamp operation was the reaction shown by those young birds.

They started to enter and stayed at where I predicted.

They chose the back part of the BH inside the VIP rooms.

The number of bird shit spots on the floor below those internal sound tweeters were unusual.

I was invited to take a final look last week and help the owner with the external and internal sounds.

On January 4th 2015, the owner called to confirm that he started his BH and now playing my external sound.

A short video clip was whatsapp to me as follows:

He was very excited to see the number of birds playing and entering his main entrance hole.

"Pak Harry your sound is running now, many birds now around, house can success.  Hopefully can be successful" 

My answer is to keep his fingers crossed.

Bukit Selambau BH Owner Is Getting HIs BH Back On Track !!!

(Owner now have started cleaning up those owl shits and vomit)

I am very proud to inform about this new which I heard today January 9th from Bukit Selambau BH owner.

He was on the phone with me today and confirmed that he has begun the revamp operation.

"Pak Harry my son have cleaned the owl shit and their vomit and at the same time preparing those seaweed water plus bird shit water."

He have purchased a set of the hexagonal tweeter and plan to install those cross woods soon.

I pushed him to install as many fake nests as possible.

If possible spray these fake nests with Super Pheromone spray.

Once his BH is upgraded and ready to go I promise to be at his BH to test the best external and internal sounds for his BH,

It might take a few weeks to get it up but I will be on a stand by to move to site.

He sound very happy and told me that he will pray to god so that I stay healthy.

If I am healthy I guess I will be able to help more people.

Or course people with BH problems.

I plan to travel to Alor Star to meet with the Jabatan Veterinary head,

He told me to drop by any time to plan for more visits to more troubled BHs in Kedah, Perlis and Perak.

I am sure I can do something to help these poor guys.

Let me plan my schedule and will set the proper date to meet the DVS officer and may others.

The Owl Of Bukit Selambau BH !!!

An interesting moment when I managed to video an owl flying out of a BH.

This happened during my Saturday outing visiting a BH located some where in Bukit Selambau Kedah.

During the trip the owner was very sure that his BH is with a special unwanted tenant.

What we did was to stand in front of the main entrance hole while the owner's son entered the BH.

Once the door was opened the owl flew out and I managed to capture the event.

Watch this clip especially at 1:02 minutes.



The owl flew out and rested on an electricity pole.

She was not happy and stayed there for a while.

When we went near she took a flight.

I told the owner that the pattern when the owl refuse to go indicated that she must have some eggs or babies inside.

Later we saw this cluster of 4 eggs.

Quite big and white.

The Bukit Selambau BH Visit !!!

(Stranded For 1.5 Years)

This BH was once doing very well according to the owner and his son.

What happened next is simply uncalled for and very sad.

The number of nests went up to almost 200 nests.

During one of the harvest the collected nests were sold at RM 3000/kg.

The owners son took the task to built the BH and at the same time maintain the BH.

Then came a couple of unwanted visitors, the owls.

This causes some havoc and a number of these visitors were shot but they continue to come.

The more they were killed the more new owls will come to the it.

I told them that this is a kind of curse or Taboo to shot and kill them.

The more you kill there will be more that will replace them.

The best is to stop them from entering the BH using traps or perhaps electrical shock wires.

While trying to kill more of these owls, they invite someone with gun permit,  the sound system went dead.

The owner was using this old designed amplifiers imported from a neighboring country.

The moment it went down there was no way to find a new one for immediate replacement.

They were not aware of replacing the whole amplifier with those commonly found amplifiers.

The sounds were embedded in its hard disc and no one knows how to extract them from the spoiled unit.

When the nest price drop to below rm 1000/kg the BH was abandoned.

The owls wins and the owner loss in a epic battle.

The BH was left stranded for almost 1.5 years.

It was revisited a few months back and some sound was installed.

However the owl remains.

Nothing was done to prevent these owl to stay and start a family inside the BH.

During my inspection I was given the golden opportunity to capture a clip of one owl flying out of the main entrance hole.

While inspecting the entrance area I found a cluster of 4 eggs.

The owl that flew out was incubating the four eggs.

After the visit I set down with the father and son writing my visit report.

They were very happy with my recommendations and I hope they will follow all the recommendations made.

These were my recommendations:

1) They need to firstly stop the owls from entering the BH.

2) They need to clean all those owls shit markings and their vomit from the BH.  If possible try to trap the mother owl that will visit the BH again to incubate the 4 eggs.

3) The BH need to be "Sterilized" by applying some fermented bird shit and sea weeds.

4) The BH should have a hexagonal tweeters and it must be precisely located.

5) A set of external sound tweeters need to be installed at the main entrance hole.  Total number of tweeters is 10 units.

6) The top floor need some kind of partitions with suitable doors about 3 feet wide.  I sketched the precise locations.

7) On the these two doors a set of external sound tweeters must be mounted facing the birds flying in direction.

8) The BH nesting planks are not well arranged.  The number of wood crossing need to be increased.

9) Internal sound tweeters to be increased to about 150 pieces per floor.  They must be facing the flying in path.

10) The internal sound tweeters must be precisely installed and must not be too far from the 90* corners.

11) Once done I recommended the installation of fake nests made from styrofoam.  These styrofoam fake nests must be both the 90* corner shape and the rectangular shape.  They must be precisely installed.

12) The sound system must be upgraded and this time around try to use a simple and easy to buy sets.  One for the external sound and two for the internal sound.

13) The external sound and internal sounds will be chosen during the testing operation.

14) The internal sound amplifiers must be running from 7:45pm to 7:00 am and from 7:00 am till 7:45 pm.  Use a auto switcher to operate the two amplifiers.

15) The LAL perimeter areas need a number of external sound tweeters.  I sketched where they should be placed.

16) External sound chocolate tweeters were recommended to pull those birds to the back of the room.

17) The BH humidity can be raised by watering the wall and the floor of this small BH during every visit.

18) The empty land opposite the BH should be properly used by planting papaya trees.  Once they start fruiting they should used the ripe papaya to generate fruit flies.

I plan to keep in touch with them and see what else I can do to help them to keep those owls away and at the same time make sure the BH is back into operation.

Once these modifications are done I promised to come again with a set of my sounds.

Will carry out the sound test and perhaps select the best sound to activate the BH.

This is the only way to get the BH going and try to recover the amount of money invested so far.

The Only BH At Rantau Eco-Park Now With A Monkey House Structure !!!

(The New Rantau House Entrance Area, The Monkey House)

The Rantau BH now is with this rectangular steel structure at its entrance area.

It used to be an open roof to allow those swiftlet to enter the BH.

Just to let you all know that this BH is one of the 27 BHs erected in a Eco-Park in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan.

Due to the number of BHs closed to each other I suggested to the owner to make it different from the rest.

He agreed to my suggestion and forked out about RM 4500 to modify his BH entrance.

The steel structure was ready within 3 days.

I went to have a good look at it and draw out the list of things that I need to do to ensure that those wild birds will come inside.

I also need to make sure those owls will be electrocuted if they should step onto the window frame.

The fabricator opened two windows measuring about 3'X4'.

One facing the east and the other to the north.

This will be the list of things to do next week;

1) I need to install a new hexagonal tweeter above one or the two windows.  It must be precisely above the window and about 2 feet high above the zinc roof.

2) The two windows need a kind of wooden frame.  I have identified where the wood will come from.

3) Once those wooden frames are up I need to install about 10 external sound tweeters on each window.

4) The lower part of the window frames will be lined with electrical wires (positive and negative).

5) The external sound system will allow me to play two external sounds at any one time.

6) A new inverter will be installed to convert the AC current to DC current.  The converted current shall be connected to the electrical wires on the window frames.

7) The BH amplifiers need to be upgraded and changed.  Will get at least two new units.

Have a look at the latest pictures taken while on my site visit today December 30th 2014.

Aluminum Netting At Broga BH !!!

(The wire netting used at Broga BH)

Something which I noticed while viewing this BH located at Taman Arawana, Broga.

At first I thought it was a piece of cloth but after closer observation I changed my mind.

This must be the netting that was related to me by a BH owner in Kuala Lipis, Pahang.

Yes a few months ago he called and asked my opinion about this special netting which he saw in Indonesia.

Since I was not familiar with it I did asked him to bring home some samples.

Now I found its installation at Broga BH.

Today I called the BH owner to take more pictures plus perhaps arrange to sent a few samples for me to evaluate.

If I can I would like to source the netting for my next BH revamp project.

If you look at the pictures closely you can imagine how those grating help to anchor those birds.

The Rompin BH will be a very good candidate.

The owner called me and told me to get ready to move.

His only concern is the flood.

I told him to hold on for a few more weeks.

Let the flood subside and at the same time allow the holiday mood to be over with.

This weekend is the new year (2015).

I will inform you all the effectiveness of this mat and maybe can supply some.

Call me for any order at 017 7551318.

Broga BH: The 2nd Floor Seems To Be Their Favorite !!!

(The Curvy Fake Nest)

During my visit yesterday at this revamped BH the owner claimed that the bird's favorite choice seems to be the middle floor.

Their main target was the VIP room.

It used to be the top and the lowest floor but now they move to the middle floor.

The modifications carried out in this BH must have caused the change of location.

The erection of partition to guide those birds to fly above the LAL and the positioning of external sound tweeters must have directed them to the 2nd floor.

I can see the increase of fresh bird shit spots inside the VIP room especially along the last, second last and the third rows.

This floor used to be with the least number of birds.

One very positive observation was that the number of birds playing above the main entrance hole were very encouraging.

It used to be very quite with no birds above the roof top but now it seems to be busy all the time.

Main reason being the effectiveness of those external sound tweeters.

The owner install more external sound tweeters around the main entrance hole plus the roof.

If I was not mistaken the owner installed at least one hexagonal tweeters, 4 mini bazookas, 8 power tweeters and 8 3"x 8" coiled tweeters.

Prior to this the hexagonal tweeters fell down and only 4 small tweeters around the main entrance window frame.

The owner went berserk with 5 amplifiers for external sounds alone.

He wired one dedicated to the hexagonal tweeter.

One for the bazooka and those power tweeters.

One for the external sound tweeters at the top entrance hole areas and the LAL.

One for the external sound tweeters at the main window and along the staircases.

One more for the external sound tweeters for those located inside the nesting rooms and VIP rooms.

He must have read a blog that tells him about how important external sounds are.

I am sure it came from one of my posting.

Another unusual installation inside the nesting rooms was the number of fake nests installed.

I sense that the number of fake nests installed was somewhere around 500 or perhaps more per floor.

I noticed that he put extra effort in cutting those fake nests properly curved to suit the shape of the corner covers.

If he did nothing the fake nest will break when installed.

This is more than what I expected.

Anyway I complimented his effort but told him to remove these fake nests once they were used twice by those couples.

Once the nests number touches 1000 nests please try to remove them.

These fake nests main objective is to help those young couples but once they are experience enough they don't need these fake nests anymore.

One thing for sure was the effectiveness of those VIP rooms.

Those birds, as per my description, prefer to stay deep inside the VIP rooms.

I was right and the BH owner also realized that.

I told him to continue making sure that his BH runs well and try not to disrupt the sound.

His BH needs an auto starter.  This will ensure that during thunderstorm the auto starter will reactivate the power supply if those lightning strike close to the BH.

My best recommendation is to go for Hager or ABB model.

I spend a number of hours to choose the right external sounds for the BH.

The best was SELKING and Super 208.

"Please make sure you safe these two sounds in your computer.  If you don't I guarantee you that you will regret."  I pressed on him.

I wanted him to keep these precious sounds properly.

In case of any mishaps he can quickly recopy the sound.

Good example is well your thumb drive malfunction or someone entered his BH and steel the thumb drives.

Keep them properly and make them as your sound library.

I was promised a good lunch and happy to sit down with his family.

(The number of fake nests surpassed my expectation. 500 plus plus)

(Another view of the fake nests and the cluster tweeters installed by the owner)

(The 3rd view)

(My sketch to him on where to install the power and hexagonal tweeters)

Found A New Method On How To Use Black Cloth In A BH !!!

Today December 28th 2014, I was engaged with a BH owner whose RBW is at Broga.

He wanted my final inspection after carrying out all those recommendations made during my last visit.

I remember submitting to him about 22 pages of visit report and provided him all the things that will turn around his BH.

He diligently renovated the BH and today he asked me to stop by for my final blessing.

I was very pleased with what he carried out but some he overdo and was a bit too much.

A good example was the number of internal sound tweeters and fake nests.

A bit too many but it was okay.

One interesting observation which I have never done before was the use of black cloth as the partition.

I asked him to erect a number of VIP rooms and I was surprised that he did them by using black cloth.

According to him the process to erect was much faster and cheaper as compared with cement boards.

The cloth were lighter to transport and carried.

All you need is a wooden frame and a stapler.

Have a good look at these pictures.

After the inspection I tested about 12 external sounds and approved 2 of my best sounds (The Super 208 and Selangor King).

His internal sound was purchased during my last trip (The SuperBabyKing).

He studied my blog and equip his sound system with three separate set of external sound players.

A very interesting BH owner who wanted to get his BH populated as fast as he can.

Enjoy these pictures: