Crescent door plugs?

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purplepearlie
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Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:47 am
Location: Missouri

I guess there are no crescent plugs available for Lone Star houses. I am a new landlord. What do you all use to plug crescent openings when it is time to close up for the winter?
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zatn02
Posts: 34
Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:35 pm
Location: Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Martin Colony History: I live on Keystone Lake which is 25 miles west of Tulsa Oklahoma. For 2020 I will be offering: 1 Gemini rack with 12 Troyer Horizontal and 12 Troyer Vertical gourds, 1 Multi-Purpose pole with 2 Trio M12K houses with expanded compartments and 4 S&K Bo 11 Plus gourds with clinger tunnels, 1 Multi-Purpose pole with 2 Trio Mini-Castles with expanded compartments and 4 Troyer Vertical Gourds underneath, 1 MPP pole with 2 Trio MSS12 houses with expanded compartments, 3 Super gourds and 1 Excluder gourd underneath, 1 Fountain Gourd rack with 12 Troyer Vertical Gourds, 1 AAA16 rack with 8 Troyer Horizontal and 8 Troyer Vertical gourds, 1 rack with 3 S&K Double Gourds, 1 Trendsetter 16 house with 4 Troyer Vertical Gourds underneath and 1 S&K Barn style house with expanded compartments and 2 gourds underneath. This will be a total of 127 nesting cavities offered for 2020. Hopefully this will help to increase my numbers over 2019 which were 60 active pair that fledged 274 babies.

I use the ones from S&K for all my crescent openings. They fit the Trio houses, Trendsetter houses, Coates houses and of course the S&K houses and gourds with crescent opening. link not allowed/Starling-Guard-D ... info/SG12/


thanks
Anita Harp
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purplepearlie
Posts: 2
Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:47 am
Location: Missouri

Thank you Anita! Very helpful.
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Ed Svetich-WI
Posts: 815
Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:05 pm
Location: Brooks, Wi (McGinnis Lake)
Martin Colony History: 24 Super and Excluder Gourds on two gourd racks, all SREH. Full occupancy. My philosophy is to maximize fledge % with existing cavities rather than adding gourds to grow colony, thus providing opportunities for new colony expansion. Fledge over 100 nestlings yearly from 24 gourds. Band nestlings in cooperation with state university. 2019 Adendum: Reduced colony size to 12 gourds to focus on more intensive management regimen.

Go to your closest Wal-Mart. Buy swimming noodles. Cut them into small donuts, cut again to make a half moon shape and insert them into the crescent opening. Cheap and very effective.

Ed
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Planelivin
Posts: 18
Joined: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:34 pm
Location: Campbellsville, KY

I found a way to plug the holes was by simply turning the nesting box around backwards. Then when the wrens stopped coming since they were closed I simply lowered house and turned boxes back around holes accessible again.
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pmlover
Posts: 805
Joined: Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:30 pm
Location: OH/New Concord

buy inserts for your houses and turn the inserts from back to front to cover the cresent holes or any others
2015 69 pairs 418 eggs 396 fledged
2019 I have 148 openings now
2016 100 pairs 600 babies fledged added another t-14 and have 126 openings now
2015 Jun 24 360 babies and 58 eggs also found one that had died
2017 632 babies 11died and 20 were killed by hawks
2015 74 pairs and 9 eggs 5/14
2010 3pairss
]JOINED PMCA JUNE 6,2018
2018 651 babies 5 hawk kills 11 floater kills 25 died in houses and 610 fledged

2014 80 pairs 283 babies 282 fledged one died
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