Created from Cedar or Pine posts, the BirdiePost™ can be used in a typical barbed fencing run.
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Inventor Brian Byrne created the first prototype of the BirdiePost in late Winter 2008. He leaned the finished product next to his workshop and due to a busy few months, he put his idea on hold. One sunny spring afternoon while gardening he noticed out of the corner of his eye that a Chickadee was flying in and around the BirdiePost.

Upon further investigation he discovered that the Chickadee had made a nest in the BirdiePost and subsequently laid and hatched four baby chicks! That afternoon he declared to his wife "This is a sign - there are chicks in the BirdiePost!"
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As a professional horticultural consultant and contractor for over 12 years, Brian Byrne has cared for and maintained large tracts of property throughout the Southeast. With a natural love of birds, Byrne has always taken an interest in the habits of many of the regional cavity-nesting birds. Byrne realized that species such the Eastern bluebird, Carolina chickadee and Carolina wren were consistently nesting in the rotted-out tops of the fence post that lined the pastures throughout the area.

During his observations, Byrne watched several nest sites which consisted of bluebirds and chickadees. Both species reared 2-3 clutches spanning from March to July and used the same cavity in all cases. It occurred to Byrne that the birds were gravitating to these natural cavities for a reason, even though the rotted fence post didn’t have a covering, the birds seemed to use the fence posts more than a traditional bird box. Byrne had always felt that traditional nest boxes were more of an advertisement to predators (both human and animal) and when placed on top of a fence post they become a potential eye-sore interrupting the natural line of the fencing. Thus the BirdiePost™ was born.

The process is quite simple, over time the tops of any traditional fence post will rot, and birds such as woodpeckers bore holes in the hollow sides in search for insects. In time the weather and the woodpeckers yield a hollow in the top of the fence post.

Through Byrne’s study of these nest sites in the spring and late summer he decided he could improve on nature’s nest-box concept. The birds had to deal with being exposed to predators and the changing weather due to the opening at the top of the post, so having a capped top and a metal entrance-hole-guard would assist in eliminating these concerns.

The result is the finished BirdiePost™ - designed to blend in perfectly with farmland fencing yet encouraging avian life to nest on your property.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Brian Byrne has always had a significant interest in bird watching and ornithology. While studying horticulture in Ireland he combined his studies with concentrations in wildlife gardening and wildlife habitat landscape design. A keen aviculturalist, Byrne has also raised poultry and cage birds here in the United States. Byrne and his family reside in Savannah, Georgia – the home of the original BirdiePost™.