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Ok, /an/, let's talk bird houses. How many of you have them or want to? I'd like to build a flicker box sometime soon (I know it's probably too late to get a pair this year, but maybe they'll find it over the winter and move in next spring).
>> Anonymous
I want to have a bunch of bird houses, especially ones to attract house wrens. I am moving temporarily into an apartment complex though so this is unlikely to happen so I will just enjoy the ones at the local park for now (there's a purple martin house there that gets a lot of them!).
>> Anonymous
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if you have a porch or a balcony that isn't very high you might try a wren house. they don't mind the hanging type, so there's a chance you might get a nest. wrens like to make multiple nests, though, and destroy the eggs of other birds, so be careful if you're trying to attract other species as well.
>> Anonymous
I'm assuming you're somewhere in America.

You will need to built at least two birdhouses, and outfit one with a sparrow trap.

Any cavity box will attract house sparrows almost immediately; if it doesn't, the sparrows will probably try to kill whatever else is nesting there anyways.

Maintaining bird-houses is a year-round activity. Basically you should start with the trap box until all sparrows are removed from your area. You have to check it every 2 hours or so and either release the good bird trapped in it, or kill the sparrow.

The thing applies with starlings.
>> Anonymous
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ITT:a frog house nao
>> Anonymous
>>269852
and in a ginkgo tree no less. he's all like, "fuck you the cenozoic never happened!"
>> Anonymous
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My dad maintains a big purple martin bird house like the one pictured. When the martins are due to migrate in, he cleans everything out. Really cool to watch them. When they aren't around, sparrows etc use it. We don't really try to discourage any particular animal, though.

>>269852
and holy shit this is awesome