Barn Swallow nest / bird house / mosquito insect control
Description
Barn Swallows can be beneficiary to your backyard. They can control flies and other insects. But this species is in decline.
What threatens The Barn Swallows?
Barn Swallows have experienced a significant decline since the mid-1980s.
While there have been losses in the number of available nest sites, such as open barns, and in the amount of foraging habitat in open agricultural areas, the causes of the recent population decline are not well understood.
This bird’s nests are often destroyed when old buildings in rural areas are demolished or fall down.
In addition, as farms modernize, many old barns that offered easy access are being replaced by large metal sheds with tight-fitting doors and no windows.
Massive pesticide spraying of fields can also reduce the insect population barns swallows need for food. (as per Ontario.ca)
The number of Barn Swallows in Nova Scotia decreased by 60 to 95 % and forced the province to add the Barn Swallows on the protected species list.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-swallow-numbers-down-between-60-and-98-1.2766255
• Help these beautiful birds and give them a place to breed, where foraging is available.
• Install one of the pre-fabricated mud nests, which should be installed under eaves or car-ports, fire wood sheds with open sides or in your barn and keep a window open.
• You can attract them with artificial nests, they will think other barn swallows bred here before and this is a safe place / area.
• With the installation of this artificial mud nest, you can direct or re-direct the Barn Swallows to an area on your property, where they are welcome to raise their family.
• This pre-fabricated nest is strong and can not fall down, because it is screwed to the structure. Vinyl siding and sheet metal is the most common building material, but has a very smooth surface. In a lot of cases and I witnessed this myself, the mud nest will stick to the structure as long as it is new and fresh. However, wind, temperature and humidity changes everyday and throughout the seasons, which leads to movements of the building material that weakens the connection of the natural nest. In many cases the nests break off, causing the whole hatch to be devastated.
When I moved to my farm, there was no Barn Swallows at all. Than we build our big shed. Years later we received some visits from Barn Swallows and some tried to build nests and hatch, but always unsuccessful. I have done some research and started to built the artificial mud nests. They were installed at my own place and friends’ places to test, whether the Barn Swallow will except these nests and will breed.
We have now 5 known accepted artificial mud nests in our community and we hope for more.
If this is working at our places – why not at yours?
If you would like to order and get them shipped - no problem - I give you the quote of shipping to your requested destination and this amount will be added to the purchase price.
Payments can be completed per PayPal or EMT (Electronic Money Transfer).
This artificial mud nests for Barn Swallows are now available at the CO-OP Farm and Garden Store and the Made in Nova Scotia Store in Antigonish and the St. Mary's River Museum in Sherbrooke.
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2021-02-12