Be sure to wear gloves and face protection. If the nest box is particularly messy, you can clean it with soap and water, or a diluted solution (10-to-1) of bleach and water.

Many backyard birds will not use a birdhouse or nest box, ... wear a mask and wash the house with soap and water. ... Nesting birds are rewarding to watch.

Cleaning your bird nest box. To prevent your bird nest box harbouring parasites including fleas, remove old nesting material in autumn and swill the box out with boiling water, then dry thoroughly ...

Nest box plans are easy to find on the internet and the boxes are easy to build, but if this is something that you want to try then you are accepting the responsibility of stewardship for them. If you ...

In what began as a side project in 2022 for Berkshire Bird Observatory Executive Director Ben Nickley, The Kestrel Nest Box ...

Unlike most of Birdfy’s feeders, the Netvue Birdfy Smart Bird House’s nesting box is made of wood — fir, to be exact. Fir is not a particularly weatherproof wood, like cedar is. So before ...

Also don’t mount the box in a tree, as it’s too easy for predators, like raccoons, to get to the nest and steal the eggs or harass the hen duck. Instead, mount them on a pole with a predator ...

In total, 379 nest boxes were reported to be used by swifts in 87 different locations in Suffolk last year, the group said. The group added that in 2023 about 263 boxes were used across 79 ...