High-rise apartments for birds
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382240)
Rockingham, Australia
April 22, 2023 9:55am CST
The photo was taken in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland and shows a wall of artificial nests. What a great idea! I don’t know how many little birds make use of these but I hope some do.
But then, maybe we’re just creating generations of lazy birds who won’t know how to build their own nests. But if there are no trees around, then it probably is a good idea. Nothing is ever black and white, is it?
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
22 Apr 23
It will be a big help for those birds on winter time 
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@FourWalls (86755)
• United States
22 Apr 23
I guess you could say the same about feeding them. But I’d rather feed them and make them lazy.
PS: just saw sad news from your homeland: Barry Humphries passed away. 
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@FourWalls (86755)
• United States
22 Apr 23
@JudyEv — I’ve been Aussie-reading a lot lately. I saw that Fr. Bob Maguire passed away and he was referred to as a “Larrikin priest” in Australia, so I had to go find out what that meant. I thought initially it was some little-known indigenous tribe. No. 
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Apr 23
@FourWalls Fr. Maguire was a great character. So you found what 'larrikin' meant? lol
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@snowy22315 (209010)
• United States
23 Apr 23
Must be nice for the birds to have a ready made home. All they have to do is decorate it..
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@snowy22315 (209010)
• United States
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv They sometimes like shiny or colorful items to put in their nests.
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 23
@snowy22315 We had a couple of crows that would steal Vince's golf balls if he started hitting them up and down the paddock.
@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
22 Apr 23
On the outskirts of Springfield, Missouri, there is a wall of nesting boxes built on a barn. During the Spring, Pretty and I stop and watch different types of swallows and sparrows nesting there.
I like the individual houses on the wall in your photo better and hope birds do use those houses.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
22 Apr 23
@JudyEv No, I don't know what bug houses are. We see bug zappers on the walls of some houses to keep mosquitos and other flying insect populations down.
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Apr 23
@DaddyEvil They are places for insects to live in. I'm written about them. I like a good excuse for a new discussion.
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@BarBaraPrz (51831)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Apr 23
Birds still build nests inside the birdhouses. I wonder how many birds will nest on those yard lights on the building behind.
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@ptrikha_2 (49766)
• India
22 Apr 23
And may be Future Robotic Birds?
Or 24th Century Human-Bird Hybrids?
I feel such ideas develop when we realize that we as humans have encroached too much into the animals' habitats.
So then such ideas are enacted and put into practice.
So let us see how well this idea works.
I feel such ideas develop when we realize that we as humans have encroached too much into the animals' habitats.
So then such ideas are enacted and put into practice.
So let us see how well this idea works.2 people like this
@ptrikha_2 (49766)
• India
22 Apr 23
@JudyEv
Yes but there should be people assigned to keep a track on all these new features.
If untracked, one cannot know how successful these are.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
23 Apr 23
You are right I can never think of birds not building their own nests. Both the parents got together to do it
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
22 Apr 23
Now such caring for the wild birds Judy.
And that photo is lovely with the sun shining..they must need air condition in their bird houses.
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Apr 23
The shadows are long, aren't they? I love the long twilights here.
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
22 Apr 23
@JudyEv Oh Ireland is lovely for that I remember Judy. Yes long shadows..love them.
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Apr 23
I think it's a viable solution in urban settings, given that we cut down all the trees that birds would need for nesting. This allows birds to still thrive in urban settings. Otherwise, many birds would disappear from our cities and towns!
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Apr 23
@JudyEv There’s nothing better than inviting more birds into the city to poop on us!
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr 23
@moffittjc I nearly got pooped on the other day. Luckily it hit the car beside me.
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@Fleura (35062)
• United Kingdom
23 Apr 23
I'd be interested to know how many are used. Normally I believe birds (apart from some that like communal living such as sparrows, swallows and house martins) don't like to be too close to others of the same species, and generally not too close to any others either although the verdict on this seems to be a bit vague (I recently asked for advice on this, for example could you mount two nest boxes in one tree? And was told it might be acceptable, if they were aimed at different types of birds and were in different positions, for example one low down on the trunk, one higher up in the branches). So I wonder what the bids make of this set-up?
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@Fleura (35062)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 23
@JudyEv Maybe, but they look very unlike the kind of places swallows normally nest. They often nest inside buildings just where the walls meet the roof. There's also a colony of them here that nest on the girders underneath a road bridge.
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@LindaOHio (222534)
• United States
29 Apr 23
I think it's a great idea. Birds know how to build nests instinctively. They'll be OK.
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Apr 23
@LindaOHio Are you able to see into the nest?
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@LindaOHio (222534)
• United States
29 Apr 23
@JudyEv lol I would love to live near all of those birds. We have a robin who has made a nest on the top of one of our coach lights.
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@RasmaSandra (98033)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Apr 23
That is just awesome what a wonderful thing to do for birds,
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Apr 23
It would be nice to be around if even half of them get taken up. It's a bit like an art installation in a way.
@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Apr 23
I guess that could happen but hopefully it's an instinctive thing.
@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
22 Apr 23
Sounds like a good idea. Are there lots of birds around the area?
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