Suggestions on lowering or replacing Trio birdhouse
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LauraR
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:53 pm
- Location: Cape Coral, Florida
- Martin Colony History: 6 Cavities offered
12 Room (converted to 6) Trio Pioneer Nature House
2021- many visitors
2022- many visitors
September 28, 2022 - Hurricane Ian destroyed house
replaced house, converted to 6 rooms with SRE doors
2023- 2 pair
2024- 3 pair
2025- 4 pair
2026-
My Trio birdhouse is stuck so I can’t lower to clean it this year. It seems the pulley system is broke and won’t unlatch. I had several handymen on ladders trying to get it down, with no luck. I would like to take the whole system down and replace it with gourds or a house with a better pulley system. Any suggestions?
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C.C.Martins
- Posts: 3368
- Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:15 am
- Location: Corpus Christi Tx
- Martin Colony History: 2016- Visitors.
2017- 5 pair. 15 fledged
2018- 18 pair. 85 fledged
2019- 17 pair. 81 fledged
2020- 25 pair. 111 fledged
2021- 28 pair. 118 fledged
2022- 33 pair. 151 fledged
2023- 33 pair. 165 fledged
2024- 40 pair. 185 fledged
2025- 40 pair. 181 fledged
HOSP:
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 49 PMCA excluder gourds; 16 room Lonestar Goliad with Modified Excluder entrances.
2019: Visitors
2020: 3 pair, 11 fledged
2021: 10 pair, 30 fledged
2022: 11 pair, 35 fledged
2023: 18 pair, 101 fledged
2024: 39 pair, 181 fledged
2025: 51 pair, 216 fledged
PMCA member
Hi Laura,
I'd leave it this season, put the new housing up close by. Let them accept it. When they migrate end of season, take a hack saw to the base and cut it down.
Keep the house, beg borrow or steal a spare o door and turn it into a trap house close to a tree or bushes, just a thought....
Tom
I'd leave it this season, put the new housing up close by. Let them accept it. When they migrate end of season, take a hack saw to the base and cut it down.
Keep the house, beg borrow or steal a spare o door and turn it into a trap house close to a tree or bushes, just a thought....
Tom
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
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C.C.Martins
- Posts: 3368
- Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:15 am
- Location: Corpus Christi Tx
- Martin Colony History: 2016- Visitors.
2017- 5 pair. 15 fledged
2018- 18 pair. 85 fledged
2019- 17 pair. 81 fledged
2020- 25 pair. 111 fledged
2021- 28 pair. 118 fledged
2022- 33 pair. 151 fledged
2023- 33 pair. 165 fledged
2024- 40 pair. 185 fledged
2025- 40 pair. 181 fledged
HOSP:
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 49 PMCA excluder gourds; 16 room Lonestar Goliad with Modified Excluder entrances.
2019: Visitors
2020: 3 pair, 11 fledged
2021: 10 pair, 30 fledged
2022: 11 pair, 35 fledged
2023: 18 pair, 101 fledged
2024: 39 pair, 181 fledged
2025: 51 pair, 216 fledged
PMCA member
Unk,
Quite right! Cut easy, most of the way through and coltrol the fall.
Quite right! Cut easy, most of the way through and coltrol the fall.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
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LauraR
- Posts: 59
- Joined: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:53 pm
- Location: Cape Coral, Florida
- Martin Colony History: 6 Cavities offered
12 Room (converted to 6) Trio Pioneer Nature House
2021- many visitors
2022- many visitors
September 28, 2022 - Hurricane Ian destroyed house
replaced house, converted to 6 rooms with SRE doors
2023- 2 pair
2024- 3 pair
2025- 4 pair
2026-
Thanks for the replies, they were very helpful. I will leave it up this year and see what happens. Last year I had three nesting pairs so I think there are three empty sections that are clean.
When I replaced the old one that was destroyed by hurricane Ian, I received three sections of poles with the new kit. I only used the top two sections because the bottom pole in the ground was fine. The poles are held together with a clamp. See photos. I could loosen the clamp and slide the top out but it would be very top heavy with the house stuck at the top.
I could use the extra bottom pole to start a new location near this one. I like that idea. But I would like the new location to have gourds and have a better pulley system. So I I’m not sure if I could use this extra pole for that type of system . See photo.
When I replaced the old one that was destroyed by hurricane Ian, I received three sections of poles with the new kit. I only used the top two sections because the bottom pole in the ground was fine. The poles are held together with a clamp. See photos. I could loosen the clamp and slide the top out but it would be very top heavy with the house stuck at the top.
I could use the extra bottom pole to start a new location near this one. I like that idea. But I would like the new location to have gourds and have a better pulley system. So I I’m not sure if I could use this extra pole for that type of system . See photo.