Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Modify A 1 Year Old BH

2 week ago, i get a call from Mr S. He asking my help to visit his BH that located at Alor Setar. This BH is 1 year old and already have 16 finish nest and have more then 20 nest mark. However, this population are not increase for more then 3 month!!! After visit and verify the error of this BH, we decide to modify the LMB and the roving area. Why ????

1) The roving area is too small and the LAL between the LMB is too far , about 18 feet from the LMB. This roving is only 7 feet X 18 feet x 8 feet . Swiftlet need more space during the first visit to a new BH, So we change it to 20 feet X 28 feet X 9 feet to enable the bird play around in this roving area.

2) The LMB for this BH is not facing the flying path of the bird. So we going to change it to the flying path and the old one we still open it because the old bird is already there.

3) The temperature in this roving area is too high, about 34c !!!!. We going to built a zinc roof on top and do some isolation at the roof top

4) The top floor is licking. During raining , all the water are going insides the BH.

This project will finish in 1 week time. So i will post the latest pictured to share with all my reader.

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