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Beverlybaynes
Mod Squad
Thanks, Denise!
alan_rymer
Well-known member
Re: Blue Peter
BeverlyBaines
Did you ever get the really straight info on Blue Peter and Norwegion Blue Parrot?.
BeverlyBaines
Denise Stabler said:
Did you ever get the really straight info on Blue Peter and Norwegion Blue Parrot?.
Nina P
Nina
The farmers in our area have been leaving fallow areas around the crops,this has resulted in a vibrant sparrow (house tree and dunnock) population, there are hundreds of starlings about, but we are hoping that the lapwing,curlew,woodlarkand nightingale population will increase, all hedgeing around requires permission to be uprooted, thereby giving protection to many small birds,as we already have a strong buzzard, kestrel, sparrowhawk, goshawk,colony, and I have seen hen harrier and peregrine in the vicinity.
Re: Re: Spuggies
Hi Nina, All new/renovated houses seem to be so "weather" tight now that the old tradional places nesting spaces have now gone. I was in a builders a few days ago where a customer was buying a plastic strip that looked a bit like a large comb designed to exclude birds.
I and a friend are currently running about 150+ nest boxes on a l large site in Yorkshire where we are now up to 25/30 breeding pairs of tree sparrows. We get good numbers of tits but so far no starlings. One of the shop purchased nestbox problems being that tit sized holes also exclude sparrows. The same hole size problem is the same for starlings. In my old house I removed a brick to let starlings get in to breed. (Very noisy compared to sparrows).
You might just want to try a few nest boxes with large holes 50mm would be a good start. I find lots of the smaller birds will not use boxed with large holes.
Hi Nina, All new/renovated houses seem to be so "weather" tight now that the old tradional places nesting spaces have now gone. I was in a builders a few days ago where a customer was buying a plastic strip that looked a bit like a large comb designed to exclude birds.
I and a friend are currently running about 150+ nest boxes on a l large site in Yorkshire where we are now up to 25/30 breeding pairs of tree sparrows. We get good numbers of tits but so far no starlings. One of the shop purchased nestbox problems being that tit sized holes also exclude sparrows. The same hole size problem is the same for starlings. In my old house I removed a brick to let starlings get in to breed. (Very noisy compared to sparrows).
You might just want to try a few nest boxes with large holes 50mm would be a good start. I find lots of the smaller birds will not use boxed with large holes.
