1st year of operations...

what should a birdhouse owner expect to see in the 12 months of good operations?

should we put in corner planks? or should we wait till all corners are taken up before putting in corner planks?

one would expect that 85% - 90% of the nest harvested in the first 3 years would be from corner nests...apart from those nests form atop of polystyrene chunks.

so say you have 1000 corners in your birdhouse....would you spend RM2,500.00 to fit it all up?

some sifus may tell you to do it one shot and to leave the birds to rest...i would tell you to save the RM2,500.00 and just have corner nests...

this is because to achieve 1000 nest, you are already very settled, meaning that you are very proud of yourself...and by extension, you would already have alot of 180d nest...

one may not be too concerned with the 90d nest after as nests formed after the 90d spots are taken would would naturally be 180d....

if you still decide to annoy early commers, you can install corner planks and force them to make 135d nests!!

you see the picture above, i only installed the corner plank on one side so that i can install the tweeter...on the otherside however, i did not have a corner plank...

both 135d corners are now home to a pair of swiftlets and when the 3rd pair of swiftlets came along, they either didnt not notice the other corner to build their new home or it has already been taken up...sorry i didnt notice!!

as you know swiftlets too are clickish and then to nest in colonies...hence if this 3rd pair of swiftlets decide that this colony is their friend...they would build a nest closest to them...

my tip, 90d / 135d / 180d nest...all are nest...start-up should not pretend to be choosers