More Tips On Keeping Your Bird House Safe
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Building a birdhouse is only the first step in attracting visiting birds to nest. Making and keeping your birdhouses safe from predators is a very important factor if you want to attract birds to come and nest in your birdhouse. We have talked about bird house openings, removal of birdhouse perch from the structure itself, and the different mounting options for your birdhouses. In this post, we are going to look at a couple more ways how we can prevent predators from entering the birdhouse. These tips are also useful for the people who build platform birdhouses so read on.
If you have already build decorative bird house for yourself and you find yourself constantly guarding your new fancy birdhouse from predators like squirrels and cats, then its going to be a really tiring experience. How do we further squirrel proof or cat proof our birdhouses ?
First, you can use an associative behavioural modifier on your predators. This is useful if you have a see-through birdhouse or a platform birdhouse since the predators can see clearly what’s inside the birdhouse. What you need to do is very simple. You need to associate a bad experience to the predator when a predator attempt to attack your birdhouse. How will you do it ? Simple. Every garden has a garden hose of some sort. When a predator like cat or a squirrel attempts to come near your birdhouse, you turn on your garden hose and shoot a jet of water at it. Cats don’t like getting wet and after some time they will learn that going near the birdhouse will cause them to get wet and they will not want to do it. You will need to perform this technique for about a couple of weeks. This is a good way to squirrel-proof or cat-proof your birdhouse.
Second, we have talked about the mounting options for your birdhouse to make it a high rise bird house. Mounting options is an important factor consider when you are building a birdhouse. In addition to that, you should also check for any presence of food around the birdhouse. Usually people who do backyard barbecue sessions or having regular backyard party session will usually tend to leave food lying around. The scent of these left over food will attract hungry animals to your backyard and to your birdhouse. Make sure that after your party or barbecue sessions, clean up properly especially around your grill area. Most of these food are accidentally dropped around the grill area.
Third, people who have pets in the backyards should not keep the pet food in the backyard too. Try to keep the food indoors so that the scent of the pet food will not attract predators to your backyard. Keep your pet food bowls and food in doors or in a proper storage area away from your backyard to avoid predators from coming to your backyard and your birdhouse. This will keep your birdhouse safer.
In addition to these tips above, you can also purchase a ultrasonic outdoor cat deterrent device like this one shown above to keep cats away from your birdhouse. These devices are requires the least effort to keep cats away reliably and easily. Just set up them near your bird house, turn then on and that’s it ! These devices sends out a high-pitched sound that humans cannot hear but cats and other predators can hear them and the sound will irritate them, keeping them out of your backyard so your visiting birds can nest comfortably and safely. A great way to increase the attractiveness of your birdhouse to the visiting birds!
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