Dear All,
The house sparrow used to be very common at my home in Mackenzie
St,they dissapeared about 5 years ago....The chaps I accommodated had no
troubles building nests in the eaves of my house,they easily access this
area by squeezing thru the 22mm rib on the bottom tile at the gutter,and
even more easily on the ragged breaks in the tiles at any valleys you may
have. So there must be some other reason for them chosing tree hollows.The
summer resident Currawongs were a scourge to my sparrows,they used to wait
above the lower tiles having marked a bird going in,grab him on the way
out.I note that the George Harcourt Inn spags are alive and well,four years
ago, there were a couple with rich chestnut crowns,that resembled the
Italian house Sparrow,they seem to have melded into the current group.
Terry Gourlay.
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