Birds nest boxes ready for summer 2018
Suggestions for cleaning birdhouses are from late autumn to late spring. Normally I do it at spring that there is something to keep them warmer during winter without having to put sawdust (or something else) there for winter. And spring is also good that you can put some new ones at same time, if you are putting new ones.
Typical nest box is standard box with about 32 mm hole in it. In those goes most common birds that use birdhouses, meaning different tits (great, blue, crested and willow) and pied flycatcher or sparrow. So this have become almost "standard" size in many cases. Those who take it more serious do custom ones for different kind of birds with variation all kind of sizes of box, including wall thickness etc.
So now couple of new ones are put in place.
Old ones are repaired and cleaned up.
And now one different size one is put up there in hope that some new bird uses it
Some "old favorites" are all ready taken and in use
At least one new one are in use all ready put did not have camera ready when pied flycatcher came out of it...
I really like these birdhouses but I would like to see how to clean them as well. :)
Try to remember it next year. You can open those easily on front, top or bottom (different ways to build them). Then you just take out old nest etc. But it can be bit messy... Birds that do not migrate spend cold winter nights there and there is crap etc. There can also be eggs and sometimes dead chicks so I need to ask someone to take those pictures-don't want to touch camera with those cloves same time cleaning them.
ew....that would be gross.....ick. I didn't even think there'd be death inside - but of course. I've never had a bird box but figured they'd need to be cleaned out somehow - I even wondered if a shop vacuum would work....but not that high up :)
Luckily that's not so often, but every once and while. And also if they open from bottom or front you usually get everything out with one or two big peaces and that's it, but of course there are some exceptions. There are some birds that clean boxes themselves but they are bit bigger and need a bigger box with larger hole to go through. Those boxes are easier to make, when they don't have open up in any way.
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