New SREH - Excluder
From: Ken Kostka, PMCA, Edinboro, PA
Date: 11/15/00
Time: 12:42:19 PM
Comments
A new type of SREH (starling resistant entrance hole) for houses might prove to be even more effective than the current crescent SREH. It might even turn out to be starling-proof. This entrance was invented by Duke Snyder, a landlord in southwestern Pennsylvania, and he has used them successfully for several years on his homemade aluminum houses, without ever having had a starling enter. While the crescents have worked well for many people , we have had some reports of failures.
With the excluder, the martin must spread
its wings even more to enter, and the "pegs" along the bottom keep
starlings from "twisting" to enter. The enlarged outer holes allow
3 young to comfortably feed at one time. These doors for Trio houses are available
from the PMCA catalog. Plates are available for people with homemade wooden
houses or non-Trio aluminum houses. The full story appeared in the Purple
Martin Update magazine 10(1) pp. 8-10. There were 20 active nests in the above
house in the 2000 season.
Editor's Note: Since making their appearance in 2000, Excluders have proven to be increasingly popular and effective, and can even be adapted to gourds. For an article on that, click here.
