House Sparrows

Although house sparrows, the kind you see in most yards and at the Pioneers park feeders, do not have nests and do not lay eggs at this time, they are active. As hole nesters they like to claim the blue bird houses. They put nesting materials in every hole around their territory. They like to hang around human activity and buildings. We do not find them further out in the prairie.

The two nest boxes closest to the Nature Centere and one by the parking lot are ones they claim. One nest box had a swallow nest from last year. I tossed the contents in the field. They are feathers and grass. The sparrows retrieved them and built a nest. TWICE!

This time I just left it. The tree swallows and the sparrows can fight over it. The other box (dark spot in front of the car) is seen behind the car in the parking lot: