I gleaned some new advice for box placement for various species from your video. I appreciate your sharing your knowledge with us. I need to relocate a wren box as I have it in an open area currently. My main focus is for bluebird preservation, and I am going to place another house for them this spring.
I’m a member of a couple bluebird groups on Facebook and if anyone shares a photo of a nest box mounted on the side of a tree or fence post , that person gets ripped to shreds. The admin and a lot of the members are adamant about using steel poles with baffles to guard against predators such as cats, raccoons, snakes etc . They tend to recommend wobbling stove pipes
@@MarksBackyardBirds good to know that is your preferred method for a baffle! Do you have a preferred method for installing the box? I've read a lot of people pound rebar in the ground and slide conduit pipe over it? Or is it better to cement the pole into the ground? Would love your thoughts on this as we will be putting up a beautiful, new deluxe 2 hole nest box in a few weeks and want to ensure its done the best way possible.
Thanks Mark I’ve been fortunate here with my blue birds The babies have stayed around here last few broods I feed them meal worms year round My question is is how many boxes is to many ?
It really depends on your area. For bluebirds, closer than 100 yards is not recommended unless you have substantial sight barriers like a treeline or front yard/back, etc. Other species like wrens, chickadees, Tree Swallows and others may nest in bluebird houses that are closer than 100 yards.
I had an outdoor cat watching my bird boxes…I wrapped my post from 2/4feet with tin so they can’t claw their way up. So how about where do I put roosting boxes…I tried this year (I might have been late) and no birds used them at all. I am in Maine and figured I’d face it South.
My experience with roosting boxes has been for them to rarely be used. I find the little roosting pockets to be better received by birds. I like tucking them up into areas like joints of post under my deck, etc. Early morning sun would be good for them.
@ Not that like that reply after purchasing 2 but the pockets reminded me of wrens more (single birds) … and what I was hoping was to house the 3 blue birds that are overwintering here in Maine, I put them in late fall, then thought the birds didn’t have time to adapt before the weather turned cold…but I have never seen them used. I liked the idea of the huddled masses warming up the box. I am well aware of us humans thinking like humans and not birds or ANY other species on earth 🙄
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I gleaned some new advice for box placement for various species from your video. I appreciate your sharing your knowledge with us. I need to relocate a wren box as I have it in an open area currently. My main focus is for bluebird preservation, and I am going to place another house for them this spring.
I'm glad the video was helpful. Keep up the good work with the bluebirds.
I’m a member of a couple bluebird groups on Facebook and if anyone shares a photo of a nest box mounted on the side of a tree or fence post , that person gets ripped to shreds. The admin and a lot of the members are adamant about using steel poles with baffles to guard against predators such as cats, raccoons, snakes etc . They tend to recommend wobbling stove pipes
That is my prefered type of baffle.
@@MarksBackyardBirds good to know that is your preferred method for a baffle! Do you have a preferred method for installing the box? I've read a lot of people pound rebar in the ground and slide conduit pipe over it? Or is it better to cement the pole into the ground? Would love your thoughts on this as we will be putting up a beautiful, new deluxe 2 hole nest box in a few weeks and want to ensure its done the best way possible.
Thank you Mark for the great videos
Thank you Andrew!
Thanks Mark
I’ve been fortunate here with my blue birds
The babies have stayed around here last few broods
I feed them meal worms year round
My question is is how many boxes is to many ?
It really depends on your area. For bluebirds, closer than 100 yards is not recommended unless you have substantial sight barriers like a treeline or front yard/back, etc. Other species like wrens, chickadees, Tree Swallows and others may nest in bluebird houses that are closer than 100 yards.
I had an outdoor cat watching my bird boxes…I wrapped my post from 2/4feet with tin so they can’t claw their way up. So how about where do I put roosting boxes…I tried this year (I might have been late) and no birds used them at all. I am in Maine and figured I’d face it South.
My experience with roosting boxes has been for them to rarely be used. I find the little roosting pockets to be better received by birds. I like tucking them up into areas like joints of post under my deck, etc. Early morning sun would be good for them.
@ Not that like that reply after purchasing 2 but the pockets reminded me of wrens more (single birds) … and what I was hoping was to house the 3 blue birds that are overwintering here in Maine, I put them in late fall, then thought the birds didn’t have time to adapt before the weather turned cold…but I have never seen them used. I liked the idea of the huddled masses warming up the box. I am well aware of us humans thinking like humans and not birds or ANY other species on earth 🙄
I have a Mocking Bird that will not let my Bluebirds alone. 😒
They can be annoying. Especially this time of year. Did you watch my video about this problem? th-cam.com/video/Bm4tKcjtC4s/w-d-xo.html Hope it helps