My waxbill birdroom

[Stuart whiting]

lem2bert

Yea I guess so Betty, the pillars will be boxed in with ply board and I may well fit a couple shelves in each space and could use plastic storage boxes on the shelves,

Could become very handy for spare drinkers, feeders, perches and nesting equipment etc

The idea also being that I don't actually want anything what so ever on the floor of me birdroom, as like this it will be very easy to keep me birdroom floor clean

[lem2bert]

Stuart whiting

I hear what you are saying, it would be easier to clean with nothing on the floor ! Great job looking forward to the next update !!

[Stuart whiting]

lem2bert

Cheers Betty

Yea definitely makes it so much easier to clean the floor,

nothing is worse than having a birdroom floor that is full of clutter that has to continuesly be moved every time when cleaning

Speak soon

[Shannylee]

Stuart whiting, looks amazing!!! How is your ankle healing?

[Stuart whiting]

Shannylee

Cheers Sharon

Yea me foot is ok now thank you, get a few twinges on it whilst walking but virtually walking normal now

As you can see I've been busy getting the raised floor of me indoor waxbill flight ready to build the frame work when money allows

[Sheather]

Wow Stuart this looks like it will be a great place to house your birds.
Indoors I make do with a spare room as a bird room, but it's carpet and it has some immovable very large furniture including a refrigerator and a non-functioning stove that make it hard to use the space efficiently and annoying to clean.

[Stuart whiting]

Sheather

Cheers Dylan

Using spare rooms in the house for foreign birds is a superb way of housing the birds, in my last house I used to used a small spare bedroom as me birdroom, I completely fitted it out as a birdroom

The birds can gain warmth in the room from the rest of the house without actually having to supply hardly any heat in the room itself,

The refrigerator you could perhaps use to put made up egg foods, soak seeds and live food in for yer birds, this would be ideal as I will be having a small fridge in me birdroom aswell, to me this is vital

The old disused stove that you've got in yer room I'd cut a section of work top, place the work top on top of the stove and use it as a additional food preparation area etc or similar

[Sheather]

I do both - all seed and veggies and all else is stored in the fridge and I work on the stove top as a counter. But I also keep some of my own food in this spare fridge and occasionally sneak in at night to get it, when all the birds give me angry stares for bothering them.

[Stuart whiting]

I also keep some of my own food in this spare fridge and occasionally sneak in at night to get it, when all the birds give me angry stares for bothering them.

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......my lighting actually stays on all of the time 24/7,

If I should really need to go into me birdroom late in the evening they aren't as likely to be erratic and get night fright because they can easily still see everything

I use a 40w night light in me birdroom, it's actually bright enough for birds to still eat late into the evening if they wish to but not overly bright to disturb any birds that want to sleep until daybreak,

if any birds should ever get disturbed during the night they can easily jump straight back onto their roosting perches etc

if it was total darkness and they got night fright they could seriously damage and smash themselves up in trying to find the perches again

[Stuart whiting]

Latest exterior birdroom pic

After a bit of a Lay off from building all of me cages and full length indoor flight during the winter months I'm now back on track and currently finishing off the interior of me birdroom,

I'll post more pics later on during the progress and finishing stages of the room

Speak soon

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[GouldianGuy]

I use a 40w night light in me birdroom, it's actually bright enough for birds to still eat late into the evening if they wish to but not overly bright to disturb any birds that want to sleep until daybreak,

if any birds should ever get disturbed during the night they can easily jump straight back onto their roosting perches etc

if it was total darkness and they got night fright they could seriously damage and smash themselves up in trying to find the perches again

Is it a yellow incandescent bulb? or is it red?

[lovezebs]

Stuart whiting

Hi Stuie,

Glad to see that your bird house is coming along nicely.

Noticed that you were MIA for quite sometime.
Hope that all is well with you and yours (?)

[Stuart whiting]

I use a 40w night light in me birdroom, it's actually bright enough for birds to still eat late into the evening if they wish to but not overly bright to disturb any birds that want to sleep until daybreak,

if any birds should ever get disturbed during the night they can easily jump straight back onto their roosting perches etc

if it was total darkness and they got night fright they could seriously damage and smash themselves up in trying to find the perches again

Is it a yellow incandescent bulb? or is it red?

Hi mate,

To be honest there's nothing special about the light bulb and fitting, it's just a normal white low energy 40w house hold bulb,

Even though there's light in the birdroom all of the time the birds seem to know when they need to all go to roost and will all sleep regardless to wheather the light is on or not,

I like the idea of night lighting because during the winter the small waxbills and finches can feed more to sustain their body weight through the winter nights and also during the summer the parents can still feed youngsters at dusk when light levels otherwise could be quite low

[Stuart whiting]

Stuart whiting

Hi Stuie,

Glad to see that your bird house is coming along nicely.

Noticed that you were MIA for quite sometime.
Hope that all is well with you and yours (?)

Cheers Elana,

I'll be glad when me birdroom is all done as its taken me a lot of time and money so far when money allows,

Meself and family are all well and yes yer right I was for a while off radar but this was mainly because of family commitments, issues etc aswell as me constantly doing a lot of me fishing around southern England

Not enough hrs in a day .....lols

Be lucky

[Vera]

That is just lovely! I wish I had one! Your birds will love it