It Strikes Me Funny: You can knock, but nobody’s home

Some of you may know I have an interest in birdhouses. Building them. Photographing them. Looking inside to see if anybody’s home.

In Harris Park, London, there are birdhouse sculptures that I find very interesting. Or as Artie Johnson used to say on Laugh-In in the 1970s, “Velly intellesting.”


The 6 - 8 birdhouses in the park are on sturdy poles. Very good. They are made of metal... aluminum perhaps. The sculptures will last for 100s of years. Excellent value for the money. And some are in shaded nooks so that high interior temperatures won’t bake the inhabitants. Good thinking.


["Photos of the sculptures by GH"]


I only see one problem. The hole is an illusion. It’s a black sticker, not an actual hole or entrance. Any bird that tries to enter "a sculpture" will bust a beak.

I like the idea of ‘birdhouses as art, e.g., folk art,’ but there’s another idea I like even better.

My recommendation: Besides planting one million trees in the next ten years (our Mayor suggested we do it in five), we should place real birdhouses (preferably made from decent lumber) in Harris Park to complement or increase the beneficial side of our green spaces.

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