Long holidays give us so much time to play !  Also much time for the YBs to delay announcements  arrgh the suspense.

There are 3 entrances, North, East and South.  Many people have mistaken my doors as in/out holes so I've an improved picture uploaded.

All the planks are from the same vendor, same batch and had been installed 2 yrs ago.  The birds have avoided this area since the first day.

Most popular in/out hole is the South hole as it overlooks a large unobstructed area. It has been noted that these birds like to fly over all obstructions and seldom fly in between trees, structures etc.

Judging from my case, birds prefer entrances that open over flat unobstructed areas of 50m or more.  My north hole has the tree line about 30m away whereas the South hole is flat to 100m away. The East hole overlooks the flat roof and is the least popular though also used by the birds.

The North hole requires a clockwise turn, the South hole an anti clockwise turn and the East is a straight flight in.

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