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HOUSE SPARROW

To: michael norris <>
Subject: HOUSE SPARROW
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:15:29 +1000
Melbourne house sparrows do like dine on sugar. A coffee shop near Flinders 
Street Station has
sparrows that take packet sugar from the tables. The birds have no trouble 
pecking this open to
have a free feed.

Cheers, Matt Weeks

Quoting michael norris <>:

> It's not nectar exactly but I've seen House Sparrows pecking at the
> tubes on
> the top of sugar dispensers at a local coffee house.
>
> Also several records of them feeding on Silky Oak - Grevillea robusta
> -
> flowers.
>
> They are just one of the exotic species that are attracted to this
> lovely
> tree, an alien in these parts.
>
> Michael Norris
> Melbourne
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