10 years ago I had blue birds tree swallows nesting in my yard and now i two sets of tree swallows only thanks to tipping entry on boxes and a lot of sparrows so getting an elevator trap for this spring for 2024 got to clean out my yard wish me luck!

I loathe european house sparrows. The mundane singular sounding chirp of a house sparrow is another unique identifier, where our song sparrows have a much nicer calling. I found a .177 pellet gun with scope to be the best way to dispatch house sparrows when their numbers increase and they threaten my bluebird and tree swallows. I've had mating tree swallows in the same place in my backyard for over 12 years now and every year, its a battle to keep house sparrows from killing the young. Great video, very entertaining.

Great video!

Been a while since you uploaded. Hope your doing well. Hope you upload soon i love your videos

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Thanks for information. I always try and be careful not to hurt any domestic birds.

Any extinguishing method recommended. Thats the hard part when I've caught them

Thank you so much for this video, been noticing a ton of sparrows at the bird feeder and it's so nice to recognize some I've seen and be able to identity and know more about some others from you!

I am so excited to get a repeating trap soon as the only birds that I see here in the city are pigeons, starlings and house sparrows with the rare robin and mourning dove. I hope that by reducing the population more native birds will come and live in the parks and gardens ^v^

Yes make sure you can identify the different types of sparrows in your area before trapping sparrows

Great content. I’m about to make the cage you made a video on and so this is good timing

There is a type of birdhouse guard that I can't seem to be able to find on the internet. It's an after market attachment that swivels and blocks the entrance if anything heavier than a bluebird sits on it. Then, when the bird flies away, it swivels back to the open position. Have you heard of this and can help me with the name of it?

Sparrows could bring you wealth and fortune,bro,so i suggest don't kill them too much

May I ask what is the point of using traps to catch sparrows ? We have the Eurasian Sparrows in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, too.

I really hate the house sparrows, i trapped around 45 in 2014..i hardly see them around anymore, if i do they don't last long. Bluebirds, Purple Martins, Tree Swallows nest here.