Well Terry your Harcourt Inn sparrows with the 'rich
chestnut crowns' may have been Eurasian Tree Sparrows,
hyper-rarities in the Canberra region (fortunately).
David
--- terry gourlay <> wrote:
> 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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