My Bird House - 3 1/2 weeks later

Visited the bird house this afternoon. Most of the renovation works have completed. Only outstanding works are the installation of alarm system and CCTV.

Alarm and CCTV is part of the equipment that all bird house owners need to consider. Alarm is to prevent thief from entering the bird house and the CCTV is to monitor swiftlets entering the entrance hole and the nesting area.

It is advisable not to enter to the bird house too often because it may distract the swiftlets and also the smell of human present in the nesting area. Therefore, it is best to enter the bird house only once a month. The only way to monitor the entrance hole and the nesting area from outside is to use the CCTV.

The CCTV that I install will have 4 infra red cameras with a video recorder. The recorded data can be downloaded into a computer notebook. Some bird house owners afraid that the infra red camera will distract the swiftlets but those tested found no such problem.

My bird house is currently enclosed with aroma. We have to let the aroma spread in the bird house for about 3 days before turning on the sound.

We have targeted to commence the bird house on Wednesday (2 days from now). Hopefully, there will be a lot of swiftlets tenants.