Bird Houses

[rareboy]

So the person who advises us and monitors our forest management plan has suggested we should add more bluebird and other nesting boxes in the field areas.

I actually have a collection of bird houses and feeders so am thinking that maybe we switch it up a little.

 

[Peloso]

I have a window overlooking a roof. I throw bird seed out so Maple can watch the birds. I get mostly sparrows, some pigeons and the occasional seagull.

 

[Alistair]

I now know that I can steal Maple very easily.

 

[Peloso]

I now know that I can steal Maple very easily.

*settles down next to window with shotgun*

 

[NotHardUp1]

So the person who advises us and monitors our forest management plan has suggested we should add more bluebird and other nesting boxes in the field areas.

I actually have a collection of bird houses and feeders so am thinking that maybe we switch it up a little.

Isn't that Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated "Falling Warblers" house?

 

[Caracara]

Bird house?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Bird house?

In the US, we often place wooden boxes with holes in them on trees or posts to provide habitat for bluebirds, a favorite species. Unfortunately, their natural habitat is diminished as forests in urban areas has been cut, and cut, and cut, and older trees with old woodpecker nests have diminshed. There is also a serious problem with the invasive English sparrows, ruthless as they drive out the bluebirds. They will even blind the nestlings and then build a new nest in the box right on top of them.

Some people also raise martin houses, which are really condos, up on high poles in back yards or fields, as they eat many insects, as do bluebirds.

There are even those who hang bat boxes on their houses up at the eaves to provide a home for bats, who also help keep insects in check.

 

[rareboy]

We have the bat houses and the bluebird houses, but Purple martins and bluebirds are now rare in this area.

 

[Caracara]

To NotHardUp1-

I was being facetious as my avatar is a Caracara- a wonderful Florida and Texas species.

Your information on bird boxes is informative and accurate. Birding your backyard or the outback is fascinating stuff

 

[NotHardUp1]

To NotHardUp1-

I was being facetious as my avatar is a Caracara- a wonderful Florida and Texas species.

Your information on bird boxes is informative and accurate. Birding your backyard or the outback is fascinating stuff

Apologies for being doltish.

I'm not a birder, but an avid native plant advocate and enthusiast.

 

[LeicsDom]

Birding your backyard or the outback is fascinating stuff

Now I am retired I love to sit with the patio doors open watching the various birds on my feeders

 

[Kahaih]

/\ Maybe spread your feeders out a bit to encourage exercise. That bird looks morbidly obese.

 

[Caracara]

/\ Maybe spread your feeders out a bit to encourage exercise. That bird looks morbidly obese.

It's a tit- seriously that's the name. In N. America we call them chickadees- as tit would be too, well, titillating. And it's just got it's got its feathers all fluffed up.

 

[Caracara]

Apologies for being doltish.

I'm not a birder, but an avid native plant advocate and enthusiast.

Native plants feed native birds. Birders use binoculars and botters use loops.

 

[Vannie]

I'm playing with my one eyed chickadee.

 

[Caracara]

I'm playing with my one eyed chickadee.

Ha ha. I’m more of a chickadee than a tit guy

 

[62624rd]

Isn't that Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated "Falling Warblers" house?

i was thinking the same thing. It looks Frank LLoyd Wright inspired