04 July 2010

It will be 1 year now on 8th July 2010

My swiftlet sanctuary will be 1 year old on 8th July 2010. Initially progress had been very slow. Maybe , due to the shape of the entrance and covered roving area which had scared away the swiftlets. The situation had improved now and swiftlets can be seen above the sanctuary chasing one another in the late evening and nests population had increased to 9 Nos. Also a lot of swiftlets were seen returning home at around 7.00 pm to 7.30 pm. The sanctuary also had some bad luck. It had been broken in thrice. The first time nothing was taken. the 2nd time 2 water pumps were taken away and the 3rd time which happened about 3 weeks ago, the burglers took away one amplifier and a few nests. Had also being spraying the sanctuary with EM and it seems to have attract more swiftlets staying in the sanctuary. While in the sanctuary last Friday, 2 swiftlets came flying in to play at around 1.30 pm. I have also have been testing my own homemade aroma which I called Ecstasy on certain parts of the sanctuary and will be monitoring the response. I sprayed this aroma directly on the nesting planks.





Ecstasy

Nest marking

Nest at corner and above tweeter

Nest marking at corner

Nest above tweeter

Nest marking

Nest forming above tweeter at corner

Nest already well formed

Nest at corner

Padlock dismantled by bugler

Padlock cover slightly ripped by bugler.

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