When I had a dog that could handle a mile walk I brought along a couple grocery bags. One was for trash, one for cans.Got it. Thanks.
I can do that. Thanks. I'll be looking up some hole sizes for other birds as well.
I love how you guys are making suggestions to improve something that many would consider a simple bird house. Turns out, there is a lot more to building a good bird house than what I had previously thought. I appreciate the online learning. Thanks, again.
Right. I'm not going to put a perch on the house. Thanks.
I will be adding another chunk of pallet wood as a collar around the house opening. I have lots of scrap wood to use up.
That's a great idea, assuming it worked for you. I will be trying the wood collar from some scrap wood first. If that does not work for me, then I'll give your aluminum soda can idea a try. Thanks.
Speaking of aluminum cans, let me rant just a bit. For the past couple of weeks, I have been going out for a heart healthy 30-minute walk every other day (doctor's orders). Anyway, it saddens me to see aluminum cans littering the ditches along the road where I walk. Usually, aluminum beer cans. What's up with that? I am assuming they must be drinking and driving at the same time if they are throwing out beer cans from their window. It's not a major problem, but in a 30-minute walk I might come across 10 cans in the ditch.
I was stationed in Naples, Italy for 2 years way back in the 1990's, and people there would toss out full garbage bags out on the highway. That way, the government would eventually clean up the road and the person would not have to pay for garbage disposal at their house. The garbage was disgusting. The local government was practically broken and not very good at clean up. I am so thankful that we don't live in that environment anymore.
My roadside here where I live is nowhere near that bad. Just an occasional can or wrapper every once in a while. Still, I was thinking today that maybe I could rig up some kind of light weight wagon behind me one day and just pick up the bits of trash I find along my route. I know we do have sections of the highway that are cleaned by volunteers maybe once a year. I clean my roadway ditch myself on my property. It's never a big deal but occasionally someone will toss out an empty bag of fast-food wrappers and paper soda cups.
Anyways, out on a walk, I have picked up some easy to reach trash that was on the shoulder of the road and took it home for our trash can just to clean the road up a bit. But my coat pockets are not very big. Maybe I could rig up some kind of shoulder bag and use a handy reach grabber. That might work.
I would not mind picking up some trash along the way as long as I don't have to be bending over all the time or toting a heavy bag of trash. I am out for a heart healthy walk, not trying to give myself a heart attack lugging trash along my route.
Sorry for that detour on the subject totally not related to anything pallet wood related, but your good comment on using an aluminum can as a hole guard triggered my thoughts from my walk earlier today. Even if I only pick up a few cans here and there, at least it would make a small improvement and I guess I could feel better about doing it. OK, I'm done.