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Roosting pouches? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter clydeboy
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pauco
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They are as their name suggests, woven pouches. Made from some type of reed, or soft thin wood. They work by hanging them in a hedgerow or if you dont have a hedge in your garden a small bush type plant will work just as good. And yes they do what they are supposed to do, we have used them for 4 years and they provide winter roosting for small birds. We have had wrens-blue-tits, and robins use them. Good luck if you try them.
mattsharps
Garden Birder
I've been thinking about getting them, yet they are out of stock on the RSPB website 
learningtofly
Member
Hi..
I bought a nesting pouch at the local bird store, and it feels like it's made of something like "sisal". It's a real scratchy, fibrous rope woven into a pouch shape. It's probably about 5 inches high by 4 wide. something like that. There is a hole on one side toward the top for entry. I stuck mine at the intersection of two sturdy branches of a nearby tree, and I've seen some chickadees sniffing around it lately.
I hope that this is what you were talking about. Have you looked at Wild Birds Unlimited's website? (wbu.com) They just might have it for you to look at.
Have a great night...............Heidi
I bought a nesting pouch at the local bird store, and it feels like it's made of something like "sisal". It's a real scratchy, fibrous rope woven into a pouch shape. It's probably about 5 inches high by 4 wide. something like that. There is a hole on one side toward the top for entry. I stuck mine at the intersection of two sturdy branches of a nearby tree, and I've seen some chickadees sniffing around it lately.
I hope that this is what you were talking about. Have you looked at Wild Birds Unlimited's website? (wbu.com) They just might have it for you to look at.
Have a great night...............Heidi
Pam_m
Well-known member
I have a couple of roosting pouches along with nest boxes in my garden. I have yet to see evidence of any bird roosting in them but I have spotted a Wren in one after insects at times, so they serve a dual purpose.
Garden centres or pet stores I have found normally stock them.
Garden centres or pet stores I have found normally stock them.
Likewise, I have two of these. One is tucked into a hedge and the other in ivy. I have yet to see anything roosting in them but I have seen small birds popping in and out after insects.
I did put some bedding into one (before I knew better!) and the birds chucked it out again.
Pam_m
Well-known member
Likewise, I have two of these. One is tucked into a hedge and the other in ivy. I have yet to see anything roosting in them but I have seen small birds popping in and out after insects.
I did put some bedding into one (before I knew better!) and the birds chucked it out again.
Perhaps the duvet tog was too high and they wanted a summer weight one, Susie!.
:-OAs long as the birds are getting something out of the pouches it is worth the small outlay for them.
Marmot
Well-known member
We had some and they did not get used at all apart from a Wren who started to make one of his "example of my work" nests in it. His good lady was not impressed at all. Rather like Pam I had seen the odd bird stick its head in for the odd insect. Another problem is they rot through after a couple of years.
If you are thinking of night roosting for Birds why not put a bird box up, ours has been used by a GT for 18 months [yes even through the summer he used it] and is now used by a BT every evening who you can more or less set your watch by. And of course they can get used as well during the breeding season.
If you are thinking of night roosting for Birds why not put a bird box up, ours has been used by a GT for 18 months [yes even through the summer he used it] and is now used by a BT every evening who you can more or less set your watch by. And of course they can get used as well during the breeding season.
James_Owen
Well-known member
Had them up for a couple of years in my garden, not used for winter roosting but we do get wrens building nests in their during the spring... though as yet never one they've decided to use.
Pam_m
Well-known member
Good luck, Clydeboy!:t: Let us know if you have any lodgers please!
