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Does this effect temperature inside box? It can get into low 100s here for few weeks here in Hershey Park

Just caught a large black snake on my box today in southern Lancaster ...despite lining my pole with carpet strip tack. Thankfully I heard the distress calls and was able to get it off

I had 3 bluebird babies about to fledge. I went to check on them this morning and found a snake instead. I was heart broken.

Hi Dean can you provide a link where to get the polycarbonate? would plexiglass work ok instead?

I'm trying an even easier solution because I have nothing to lose - sparrows just kicked the bluebirds out of the box a couple of days ago. I cut a hole in the top of the box and just attached the top of a Chinese takeout soup container with screws. It seems to function as a skylight and took me minutes to do.

I do not believe sharp ends of clipped hardware cloth will even slow a snake down. It may offer some resistance to hawks.

My bluebird nest box is on a 4x4 fence post.

Lancaster county Pa. here as well. If you are still around, would be nice to correspond. I am combating House Sparrows. Probably at a 70% success rate...thank you

How did you get the wire screen? Did you make it or purchase it somewhere?

Great Video.

can you use a noel guard on a front opening box?

Won't the sun eventually take a toll on the bucket so that it becomes brittle and cracks?

My new birdhouse box came with a small plexiglass side window on it, will that work just as well?

You didn't say how you make that little screened in porch for the bluebirds

Thank you sir

What can you use for the metal cap or how would you make and attach one?

What is the kind of metal on the bird house you showed it but didn't give a name or a close picture so i can go purchase the item you are talking about Thank YOU !

You can add an ANT deterrent inside the baffle too.🙂

Okay so what's the whole purpose for sky light? Dean never tells why it's a good idea. Anyone care to let me in on secret ?

We have the cats here in England. Are foxes a predator of birds? Thanks anyway.

Excellent info and demo! Thank you, Dean. God bless you 😊

No guarantees with sparrows...catch them and kill them

what if the birdhouse is already there/mounted?How can you attach the baffle/stovepipe?

Wonderful, helpful video. We've had bluebirds for years and then, a few years ago, a black snake was able to shimmy through the baffle we had and he got inside the house and ate 3 of the 4 eggs! Horrors!! My husband killed the snake but no one will nest there now! We have many visits from various bluebirds but no one moves in. Any ideas? Has word spread through our neighborhood that we have snakes? Or is there just a bad energy lingering? Help!

How do you make the little screened porch?

Won't the sky light make it too hot in the box?

Does not work!!!!!!

Stupendo e efficacie metodo per eliminare le predazioni . Like

I'm on it---THANKS!

What is the guard around the entrance hole size and made out of? Very nice video

I live in Lancaster too! I just added a cage like this, and an add-on piece to the hole. The house sparrows keep coming in though! They had a nest but something to go it, which is why I made a guard and bought one. The sparrows are still going in, but the bluebirds are interested in nesting there. Trying to get the sparrows to not enter!

I want my 6:24 seconds back. That should have taken 2 minutes to explain. If you DONT put boxes on poles, you won't have to worry about that problem. The Conservation Dept even tells you NOT to put boxes on poles.

I have my pole with baffle and birdhouse installed, but my pole keeps turning. I watched a video that showed placing pole over rebar attached by a coupling. This is how mine is attached. Any suggestions? Everything looks great, and just as video shows.

Doesn't work

Won’t this cause the house to overheat?

Wonderful. Thank You for taking the time to make this video.

Prices have gone up in 9 years. An 8" sheet metal duct cap alone is about $11.

Is heat an issue with the skylight?

Yes! Destroy my fun of bluebirds if they were killed? Because of me because I am the idiot that put that box there?? it would traumatize me for life!! What to do! What to do! (Hand-wringing.) Then here comes Dean Rust with a very entertaining and professional video saying that hope is not a strategy. Yes! Thank you for an excellent video. It is Jan 31, 2023 here in Indiana and my five boxes are up - spaced 100 feet apart, in open areas, far away from houses, barns and stables, not less than 25 feet from woods or brush, 5 ft high, facing East-North East. Holes are exactly 1 & 1/2 inches round, no perch, with a 4X4 inch or greater base and 11 inches high, and with vents at top and bottom, side opens for viewing not more than 3-4 days apart in breeding season, which is from mid-February through August. Around the hole I have a wooden predator guard and on top of that is a lovely copper predator guard (so the wood won't get clawed at). I can easily now identify what an English (aka house) sparrow looks like and I stopped using seed mixes to scatter for birds and will switch to straight niger and sunflower seeds - no corn. Cheap seed mixes attract English sparrows. I have studied up on the differences between nest types (bluebirds' are finely woven grass mostly) so I can clear out any house sparrow nests when they start (god forbid). Think I am ready? I knew I was not quite. So then I did see another video about making the baffle by clipping the metal where is it corrugated at the end, bending them down and hanging on the clamp on the pole. Then I saw a video (this one from a guy in Oklahoma) that discussed using bent hardware cloth around the hole opening (but he did not mention the baffle). But you, Mr. Rust, bring it all together here with a straight-forward pep talk that challenges us all to undertake this project wholeheartedly (read, not half-arsed) and vastly increase our opportunity for success. Bravo!!

This is a very good Idea I will try it this spring will try putting two washer under the plexiglass for vent will report back this fall!

I wish you had described how to make that last guard and answer some questions people have .

SLM

I would think on windy days those deterrents make irritating sounds for the nesting birds.

Will a regular, wood, predator guard keep wrens out?

I have a box that had blue bird couple in it with 5 eggs, I didn't see the male for a few days checked the nest and the 5 eggs were still there next evening I saw the female fly in towards evening but still never saw the male. Checked the nest a few days later and all 5 eggs gone no sign of a struggle in the nest , no cracked eggs totally clean nest.I put a woodpecker guard on it when I first bought it extended the hole another inch out. Never see any large snakes here , dont think the mother can fly off with the eggs and relocate. Trapped and killed a large skunk just yesterday. The house is attached to a tree, will move to a pole and add the guards to it.

Does the skylight make the box too hot in 90degree weather?

I have heard people swear by the cone dome shaped baffles instead. I may have to buck uo for one bexause I lost eggs this year with the stove pipe.

I lost a clutch of 4 eggs this spring. Just gone. I had a stovepipe baffle up qith chicken wire instead of a cap. I can't figure out what got up there. No disturbance on the nest at al. Very distressing and haven't seen the bluebirds since then. Wondering if the mom was picked off too.

nope tried this it don't work. I throw out 15 to 20 nest from sparrows all spring. finally they give up. I now have a blue bird the first of June.

We used plexiglass glass. Is that ok too?