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Thanks for your informative video. I noticed that you had seed in your feeders - this can attract house sparrows to your yard. So now they don't have to travel far for food and the nestbox is a bonus. I don't feed bird seed in the summer breeding season, it often attracts unwanted birds like house sparrows, starlings and grackles. Here in Canada, I only feed mealworms to bluebirds (to adults and babies) when the weather is cold, rainy (or snowy). FYI - House wrens also compete with bluebirds and tree swallows for nestboxes. Monitor your nestboxes as often as possible. Thank you.

Thanks for the good information and perspective.

Hello, I appreciate all information about bluebirds! Thank you for making the video… Short piece of advice, not everyone is able to sit and watch the video without doing other things around the house while the video is playing, and therefore, if you don’t mind, you could read everything that you have typed out.

After breeding for the blue birds i take my box down so the sparrows dont nest.. then when i see mom and dad looking for the box the following season i put it out for them

We have Bluebird eggs in the nestbox. I'm hoping the sparrow spooker will deter the aggressive scrub jay who has been perching on the roof of the nestbox. 🙏🙏🙏

Researching now as Sparrows sadly just took over my bluebird box yesterday. I never knew this was a thing. I’m devastated!

How are you able to inspect without the parents attacking you? My Bluebirds dive bomb me, when they have babies in the nest box.

What kind of pole is that ?

I have feeders and I will just give them a high velocity lead supplement when they land. It seems like I've put a dent in them. I've got more finches and junkos now.

I've caught many with the Repeating Elevator Trap..

Nature shows why female bluebirds always have a partner and a secret lover.

Early this season a English sparrow made a nest and layed 5 eggs in my Bluebird box, I removed the eggs and the nest about 2 weeks later the Bluebird made their nest and laid 5 eggs, a week later all 5 eggs were gone without a trace. What could have happen? Last year we had 3 clutches of Bluebird in the same box.

How you kill the sparrows....last time i had hosp i trim the wings and let the aols snack on them ... 😮

For 3 years previous to now, my nest boxes belonged to bluebirds & swallows. This year they all belong to sparrows. I took down the two that had active nests and placed them near the ground. Mom’s problem now.

Loves birds but not when there pooping everywhere on fence i have a neighbor who puts a feeder out and oh boy they come in packs poop all over the fence and yard any advice on how to deter them my yards next to there’s

Thank you for sharing your experience. I had two boxes out and didn’t know to what extent House Sparrows are a threat. With team work, two Bluebird couples and I chased a male House Sparrow away. I wish I had recorded the battle, but it took us two days to win the battle. Happily, I now have two houses with Bluebird nests.

Blue birds

Van ert trap and a laundry bag.

I bought a bluebird box made from new wood, I made the mistake of painting the inside and outside with boiled linseed oil for protection of the wood. Finding out later that you should never use linseed oil on the inside. Any suggestions on what I could do if anything to be able attract bluebird’s in that box. They came by to check it out (male and female) but chose the regular bird house with a perch about 50 feet away. That house only got linseed oil on the outside, I know that house is not the right house for bluebirds. If I see house sparrows around that house I’ll take it down. I have utility lines going over the houses and the bluebirds love to set on the lines and feed on bugs and keep an eye on there wrong dwelling. Lol

good stuff to know. I was aware of the danger of house sparrows and I do monitor the nestbox I have. There are 3 eggs so far in the nestbox. 4/20/23. Love watching them.

I REMOVED THE START OF A JACK SPARROW (HOUSE) NEST IN OUR BB BOX ALREADY AND I FOUND A DEAD BLUEBIRD FEMALE A FEW DAYS LATER, I COULD TELL SHE HAS BEEN ATTACKED. HATE THOSE SPARROWS!!!! Susan

Sparrow control? lol

Sparrows are like roaches, mice, rats and squirrels....... Just exterminate them......They breed so quickly there will always be more. The Idea is to bring down the population and keep it to minimum. When the breeding season is over - buy or build an "Elevator Trap" for the Sparrows and you can lower the local population. It appears that Taryn lives in area where there is farming, see that from her back yard and corn growing. With grains growing, there are sparrows to be found.

This is a myth about sparrows not eating insects. They are prolific insect eaters in my garden. The problem is they eat many of the beneficial insects as well. I am trying to find a method of keeping them away from my gardens so the bees can pollinate in peace.

I quit feeding birds when winter is over. Live in the country and the sparrows tend to leave when the grain and sunflowers are gone. Will sneak out by the feeders in the winter when the sparrows are on the ground give it to them with the 12 gauge shotgun. Yes I have had sparrow problems in the blue bird houses. They get the 12 gauge also if they are nesting in a box.

We can't protect blue birds old homes?

Thank you so much for this video ! At first I thought the sparrows mistakenly laid an egg in our western bluebird nesting box until I started researching. We have nestlings in the western bluebird box and the sparrows are trying to get inside as we speak I'm throwing rocks

I did.

So, my bluebirds built a nest in a backyard birdhouse. They were working for two weeks on the nest. I left my home for 5 days. Upon return I saw a sparrow flying in and out of the house. I rushed out and took the whole house down. There were no babies or eggs. I put up a blue bird house with a plexiglass circle On the top. I discarded the sparrow nest and transferred the bluebird nest to the new box placed on the same pole. The bluebirds returned, each going into the new house and then leaving. It’s been three days, and the bluebirds have not returned. Should I discard the bluebird nest, so they are free to build another one?

damn sparrows harassing my swallows now i cant sleep

Gamo .177 air rifle. All you neeeed.

I'm a new Sub

Q? Did you make that box ??

Great video , I will be watching

I just cleaned out a Starling nest from my house, witch had 5 Baby's in it, All Sparrows and Starlings must go

Thank you for letting me know this. The sparrows took over my eastern bluebird house as soon as I put it out. I hang gourds up under my porch and the bluebirds nested in it and have successfully had their babies. Thanks again. I now no what to do.

Thanks for sharing this with us. Great information!

Thank you for this idea, am using it now ! The Van Ert trap did not work for capturing the male while the nest was being built, and now it is not working with the female either. They are just hopping across the perch part of the trap and down into the box !

Okay here's my opinion on The House Sparrows vs Bluebirds argument: Instead of killing House Sparrows, they should be captured and sent off back to England, for they are facing extinction there. And I think the government should subsidize that, after all they were part of the reason these non-native birds were here in the first place. There is no justification for killing House Sparrows. Most of you bluebird enthusiast would argue with me with the most ridiculous analogies to try to say that I'm wrong. You have the worst spiritual karma / wrath of God coming your way if you start killing sparrows, pigeons and any non-legally protected animals of your current government. I wouldn't be surprised if you bluebird enthusiasts find yourselves having a miscarriage or getting hit by a truck while buying your silly groceries at your local shop, and dying haha... Let nature be nature. If Sparrows kill Bluebirds and they reproduce more than them, then that's just how evolution of this planet works. You don't have the right to play GOD with these birds, specially since they can't fight back against you, cause you're a human and you are far more powerful than them. Wanna save Bluebirds? do it the right way. Write to your government, senators, etc. And make sure that Sparrows are sent back alive to their native home: England. Anyway, this comment I made here, but is not directed towards the uploader of this video. Even though the uploader girl is a pro-blue bird conservationist.

house sparrows are such pest … thanks for giving blue-babies a fighting chance!

Enjoyed the video! I trap and shoot ehs and starlings! By far the sparrows are the most wary once they know they're being targeted! I use .25 and .22 cal pcp air rifle! Very accurate and not that loud!

I watched house sparrows, plucking feathers off of nearby nesting mourning doves for nesting material. This, to point the doves had featherless backs.

Im sorry if I missed this detail but what was the point in making the eggs infertile and putting them back. Why not just throw them out?

I Have A Sparrow Cookout At The End Of The Summer !!! Only Takes 5 Min On Grill To Cook One !!! There Claws Make Great Tooth Pics !!! NC Wild !!!

I Will BILLED YOU A HOUSE BEAUTIFUL !!!

I love your sparrow spooker set-up! Where can I find the gadget that is attaching the post of the sparrow spooker to the bluebird box, and what is it called? I need a way to attach and detach the sparrow spooker easily. Thanks. Sandi from Muscle Shoals, AL

Thanks for video. I have put aluminum foil in the box shinny side to inside box. This keeps sparrows out. I have a lot of trouble with sparrows. I have let the sparrows nest in the box then rob the eggs. This will keep the population down. 20 to 21 eggs preseason last three years. Starlings have kept blue birds away to. Later.

Invest in an external microphone for your video camera or phone. Had to jack the volume up to its max to hear this.

I've had no luck with bluebirds till last year when I built 2 Peterson style houses. (Nice lawn).

Ok you have good reasons to kill birds, but you never explain what is the human way to kill them once they are traped.