A Fail Bird House

There are about 5 existing swiftlet bird houses around 500m radius from my bird house. Most of the bird houses are quite discrete and it is rather hard to notice them unless you look carefully. One of the bird houses even put up a decoy signboard saying that they are trading tiles.

However, there is one particular bird house which is very badly built. The front entrance hole is an existing window cover partially with plywood. Two tweeters are placed at the entrance hole. The sound from the tweeters is so loud that it becomes a nuisance to the whole area there.

Since this bird house is just a few lots opposite my bird house, my contractor have been observing the bird house daily and found that there is not a single swiftlet flying into the bird house. I suppose it must be a fail bird house and the owner keep turning up the sound trying to attract the swiftlets. In fact, if the sound is too loud it will scare away the swiftlets instead of attracting them.

Investing in a bird house is for a long term basis. It must be properly design and build. However, many bird houses are built on shops/factories that the owners have difficulty to rent it out. They just want to spend very little money to do up the bird house and hope that the swiftlets will just fly into it and produce a lot of nests. They are trying out their luck and contribute to the statistic of another fail bird house.