Welcome to Bird Houses
Feature Article July 18, 2010
Should we clean the outdoor bird houses at the end of the season?
- July 18, 2010, 5:31 pm
Question
We added several new home built bird houses this spring. We didn't get any purple martins or blue birds, but swallows, finches and some wrens happily built nests. Should we clean out the houses before next spring, or will that discourage the birds from using the houses again. The barn swallows keep returning to their nests in our barn and we never touch those nests.
We added several new home built bird houses this spring. We didn't get any purple martins or blue birds, but swallows, finches and some wrens happily built nests. Should we clean out the houses before next spring, or will that discourage the birds from using the houses again. The barn swallows keep returning to their nests in our barn and we never touch those nests.
Answer
I always clean my bird boxes out in March, so it will be ready for use, they must like it they keep coming back...........
I always clean my bird boxes out in March, so it will be ready for use, they must like it they keep coming back...........
Feature News
Every spring, Mr. Abare said, they show up to nest in the bulbous chandelier-like birdhouses he made several years ago out of plywood and hollowed-out ...
Publisher: New York Times
There, we installed bird houses the architecture of which copied the palaces of some famous dictators. We created a series of nests entitled 'Stalin', ...
Publisher: The Observers
A long-time reader from Lyman wrote: “I put up two birdhouses in the spring and watched the birds check them out and not move in. ...
Publisher: NewHampshire.com
Categories
Follow us on Twitter
Recommended
