Are you a Birdhouse/Birdnest Landlord? :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

How are your birdhouse and birdnest happenings doing this year? Birds with rent free and tax free homes thanks to you! ;)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Awesome! :)

[Hot Tabasco]

I had four chickadees fledge in early May

Mine fledged early last week from the bird house I installed on the side of my house which I could observe thru the garden window over my sink.

As a side note, after they fledged last year about the same time, another pair immediately took up residence.......

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Great! :)

Do you mean at the gun range?

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Amen!

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Beautiful!

Your tagline is hilarious!! :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Hilarious!! :)

[Hot Tabasco]

Sparrows have finally gotten their nests built under the roof of my back porch.

I hate sparrows, if they can enter a bird house they will do so and kill the existing nesting birds such as chickadees and take it over.....

If you make bird houses, you can avoid that happening by making the entrance hole smaller.......

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Wonderful!! :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

I was hoping my chickadees or some more would build another nest this season in the birdhouse. So far nothing again yet.

My sister’s father-in-law is my birdhouse/nests idol, he has so many and so many different types I heard. :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Nice! :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Beautiful, and love the birdhouse!!

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

I am so jealous!! :)

[Hot Tabasco]

In the house I just mentioned, two years ago I saw a blue jay attempting to get into it on the day the chicks were fledging.

I didn't think much about it until a few days later when I went out to clean out the nest box. There was a dead chick that had its eyes pecked out by that damn jay. Jays are predatory and will raid the nests of other birds and either eat the eggs or the chicks.....After that incident, jays are now on my SOS list....

A number of years ago I was standing outside my workplace building when I watched a crow fly over and into a pine tree across the street and fly back with something in its beak three separate times. Turns out he was raiding a robin's nest and taking the babies back to feed its own.......

[Paleo Pete]

Thanks.

The tag line actually came from a bumper sticker on somebody’s truck.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yes

[FamiliarFace]

Make sure to clean them out after every brood. Sometimes I use a damp paper towel to clean out the crud left behind after removing the old nest. They should come back in soon to start again.

[dforest]

Mine are filled up. I watched the potential tenants checking them out. They like what I had to offer.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

You have a good heart for God’s creatures. I tried to save a nestling once when I was a kid. Of course, I didn’t know what I was doing and it died. Mom bought me a parakeet, and I had much better luck with it.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I know a lot of birds can have negative traits and are considered pests. My grandmother lived in a big farm house and I remember my uncle shooting sparrows of the roof with a BB gun. When my father retired, he decided to put out purple martin houses. After a few years, the martins stopped coming back and the houses were quickly taken over by sparrows. Sparrows are kind of the main bird around here and I just accept them as a fact of life. Their nests on my back porch are inaccessible (one is in a space between a beam and the roof), and outside of the mess they make when they are building nests, they are not too much of a problem. I have seen them cause problems for other birds, though. Once a dark-eyed junco was minding its business in the yard and a gang of sparrows jumped it. The sparrows had it on its back and it was probably lucky to get away alive.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t know about all sparrows, just the common House (or English) sparrow. It’s a non-native species that is generally considered troublesome and a pest, and a danger to some of our native birds.

They don’t mate ‘for life’, but usually change partners when the breeding season rolls around again. A single House Sparrow won’t necessarily use the same nest again, but a good spot will be found by other pairs.

(They’re named ‘house sparrows’ because they like being around human habitation, and like the little spaces they can find to nest in human habitations.)

If you want to avoid them, you have to build some kind of ‘block’ to the area you’ve found that they seem to like to nest.