First, you're right about the house sparrows but you do know you can legally kill them?
Not that I'd be out killing birds but I'm jus' sayin'.
This year we've been so blessed. Had a pair of cardinals nest in my service berry bush. Had a pair of thrashers nest in my hedge rose. Had a pair of wrens next in my polka dot plant.
Those baby wrens, goodness, they were right at my eye-level, in, as I described, my polka dot plant. Which was a pain in that I couldn't water the thing because, well there were wrens nesting in there! I watched the little guys, heh, they would lie on top of each other, there were four of them, like a stack of firewood. They got so used to me stopping and talking to them.
I don't know what Mama wren was thinking but wrens always do pick strange places to nest. Because the plant's leafage (this is an INDOOR plant that I summer outside) covered the next and shaded it, but I couldn't water and guess what happened? THE PLANT DIED! Then the entire nest was exposed. She'd built some kind of cover of the nest and it was under the eaves of my garage but no leaves help shade the babies and this when it was roaring hot.
Still those baby wrens grew fine as their parents struggled in the heat to deliver bug food and in due course I began telling them to get the heck out of the nest. They got as big as EAGLES!
Like human parents, the wren parents finally pushed the babies out of the nest and no they could not have health care until they were the wren equivalent of 26. God bless them I watched them fledge and it was precious. I feel like they are my children and don't forget I invested a polka dot plant.
Pic of cardinal in my serviceberry bush delivering bugs to his children
. Below, just to show you I know how to post a picture.
