http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/-t1.htm Keep record of your local songbird populations here. Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:33:15 GMT 10 http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/14/84/91/86/sparro14.png http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/-t1.htm http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/good-news-on-the-trail-t90.htm Monty Found out some great news on the trail today. Wife went with me so she could "awww" over the deer mice that were in the boxes. Of the four new boxes along 950 S, at least one of them has tree swallows interested. Then, checking and harmlessly-evicting the mice, we cleaned out the other boxes along mom's road. I have four or five pairs of bluebirds claiming boxes and lots of tree swallows. As of today, not one house sparrow! Have my fingers crossed that that continues. And, I caught ... Community Songbird Populations Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:33:15 GMT http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/good-news-on-the-trail-t90.htm#332 http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/good-news-on-the-trail-t90.htm http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/mocking-birds-t60.htm wethereckoning I have a healthy population of mocking birds. All day long in the summer you can watch them in the grass stirrin up bugs and hear them making calls that sound like cell phones and stuff. I try to feed them bird seed but sparrows and starlings seem to eat up all the seed before the mocking birds get a chance. Community Songbird Populations Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:48:57 GMT http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/mocking-birds-t60.htm#207 http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/mocking-birds-t60.htm http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/monty-s-trail-t36.htm VS Ryan Monty wrote:I love this site too! Finally some freedom. My parents neighbor had martins for over 40 years. Six homemade aluminum houses with 24 holes in each. His colony was maxed. We lived across the road from him, and I decided to "snag" some of his birds. He didn't mind. I cleared a big area on Department of Natural Res. (DNR) ground, they never knew it wasn't ours, and began erecting martin houses. I bought them from the Nature Society: Two Grandpas, one Trio-Wade, one Castle. ... Community Songbird Populations Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:49:17 GMT http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/monty-s-trail-t36.htm#110 http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/monty-s-trail-t36.htm http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/el-paso-songbirds-t17.htm VS Ryan Well, there aren't many around here. There seem to be small pockets of them here and there, but I literally haven't seen any where I live now. My previous apartment had a healthy population of songbirds, but the apartment complex was using Avitrol on the pigeons and literring the landscape with convulsing birds so I had to get out of there. I know there are a few types of finches, warblers, chickadees, woodpeckers, and wrens around here as well as mocking birds. Once I get these sparrows ... Community Songbird Populations Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:34:36 GMT http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/el-paso-songbirds-t17.htm#36 http://www.sparrowsquad.com/community-songbird-populations-f8/el-paso-songbirds-t17.htm