Bird Hovels
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
These have been showing up around the East Village over the past month. My guess is they are made by someone with some mental problems, or less likely an artist making some sort of statement about homelessness. They are all placed barely above head level, and I doubt any bird will make use of them. Rain has demolished some of them already.
Looks like a sad school project to me. Maybe the kids were instructed to build birdhouses out of recycled material.
In any case, House Sparrows and Starlings would be the most likely to use them and they are wildly detrimental to the rest of the native birds in NY.