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

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

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

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

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

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

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