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[cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[job121830]

For those who are fed up with damage done by house/English sparrows.   www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm  

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Melanie Uhlir]

I took down all my nestboxes except for the one that House Wrens have 
favored for years and already had a pair defending it from the damn 
House Sparrow (and the one covering a woodpecker hole in our front wall, 
the entry of which is plugged.) As I watched the tiny wrens ferociously 
defending their home (the entry hole of which appeared to be too big to 
allow the HOSP to enter), I hoped that perhaps the wrens would win by 
killing the HOSP so I wouldn't have to. I still hear the wren song but 
haven't heard the horrible, monotonous cheeping of a HOSP since I 
witnessed the battle. So I'm hoping that Team House Wren gave that HOSP 
some of his own medicine.

If I ever, gods forbid, need to dispatch House Sparrows, I would be 
happy to pay someone to do it for me as I am a big, squeamish baby who 
can't kill things. Otherwise I might just have to give all my nestboxes 
away to someone tougher.

On 5/18/2015 3:09 PM, job121...@verizon.net wrote:
 For those who are fed up with damage done by house/English sparrows.
 _www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm_
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Susan Gateley]

not really a bird watching note but here goes.

we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down.

It was a phoebee nest with four almost white eggs and a COWBIRD egg,

Did we do the poor birdie a favor? Will she find another site and re-build
I wonder? Without a cowbird?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com wrote:

  I took down all my nestboxes except for the one that House Wrens have
 favored for years and already had a pair defending it from the damn House
 Sparrow (and the one covering a woodpecker hole in our front wall, the
 entry of which is plugged.) As I watched the tiny wrens ferociously
 defending their home (the entry hole of which appeared to be too big to
 allow the HOSP to enter), I hoped that perhaps the wrens would win by
 killing the HOSP so I wouldn't have to. I still hear the wren song but
 haven't heard the horrible, monotonous cheeping of a HOSP since I witnessed
 the battle. So I'm hoping that Team House Wren gave that HOSP some of his
 own medicine.

 If I ever, gods forbid, need to dispatch House Sparrows, I would be happy
 to pay someone to do it for me as I am a big, squeamish baby who can't kill
 things. Otherwise I might just have to give all my nestboxes away to
 someone tougher.

 On 5/18/2015 3:09 PM, job121...@verizon.net wrote:

  For those who are fed up with damage done by house/English sparrows.

  *www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm
 http://www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm*
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Geo Kloppel]

Successful Phoebes usually raise a second brood, so it's certainly possible 
that yours will try again...

-Geo 

On May 18, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Susan Gateley su...@silverwaters.com wrote:

 not really a bird watching note but here goes.
 
 we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down.
 
 It was a phoebee nest with four almost white eggs and a COWBIRD egg,
 
 Did we do the poor birdie a favor? Will she find another site and re-build I 
 wonder? Without a cowbird?

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