Protecting your birdboxes from predators.

[Dos_Box]

Following the destruction or our bird box and the blue tit chicks within by a woodpecker, one of the Lancashire Schools' Web Team found this very helpful article. I hope it helps others. We are going to repair ours shortly and hopefully we'll get a second clutch later on in the summer.

 

http://www.conservationevidence.com/Attachments/PDF1043.pdf

[elsiegee40]

Woodpecker (and squirrel) hole enlargements can also be reduced by applying an aluminium plateto the front of the bird box... with a hole cut into it in the appropriate place

 

Contact your local senior school tech dept for help!

 

or buy one of these: Bird Nest Box Plate

 

or here: CJ WildBird Foods - Nest Box Plates

 

 

these are good too: CJ WildBird Foods - Nest Box Guardian... although we put the aluminium on first as our squirrels demolish plastic if they're in the mood.

 

I hate squirrels... chewed their way into our roof and did a lot of damage

[FN-GM]

I found these to be the best solution

 

http://www.cherrys.com/pedpics/S293b.jpg

[elsiegee40]

I found these to be the best solution

 

http://www.cherrys.com/pedpics/S293b.jpg

 

That's the solution my brother-in-law uses in remotest Derbyshire - I think 'quite near the town centre' Kent may not approve!