Our Experience With The PMCA Trap House

[Guest]

We bought the PMCA STHS Nest-box Trap a few weeks ago. It has been extremely useful. I highly recommend it to anyone needing to trap starlings and sparrows. We have had traps for the doors of martin and bluebird housing for a couple of years, but this year our scouts got here before the starlings and sparrows really got started looking for nest sites. With the STHS Nest-box Trap we were able to welcome all our friends, and weed out the unwelcome competitors, without teaching our friends to avoid the housing intended for them. The "trap house" as I call it is very attractive to our S&S. It is actually a very well made house and is quite attractive to us too. It can be left "set" all the time during nesting season, if you are willing to check it often. We have a bluebird set-up just a short distance away. We caught the bluebirds one time each and they learned to stay out of it. The "trap house" is just sitting there waiting for the next unwelcome visitor. It is efficient, well made, and easy to use. We may have been the last to know how good the "trap house" is, but if there is anyone out there wondering about whether it is worth a try, we are very happy with ours.

[Guest]

It is absolutely never to late or to often to pass good comments about anything that will support good management and the birds. Thank you for taking the time to compliment a good tool.

[Kelly Applegate~MN]

Tidfam-

I agree, the nest box trap is a great and easy way to weed out the S&S. I move mine all over the yard. Sometimes I have it on a 5 foot pole in a movable base, sometimes near the side of the house, but the most effective spot is on a 12 foot telescoping pole next to my T14. When the starlings cannot manage the SREH on the T14, they fly right to the nest box trap and plop right in!

[Sharon - Central TX]

We have had good luck with the nest box as well EXCEPT when it is windy. And that is fairly often where I live. We have adjusted it several times trying to find that "right" position. But when its tight enough that the wind doesn't trip it, then when a bird enters it doesn't close either. If its loose enoug to close after a bird enters, it's continually closing due to the wind! Maybe we need the more expensive one where the hole stays open and the birds drop down into the cage. Might be a good project for hubby when he retires