[CT Birds] Hummingbirds and others, banding

[Kathy Van Der Aue]

Thanks, Jim.  I do have the metal guard portal on the house (originally put up to attract disinterested bluebirds.  The guard's hole is sized for chickadees but the wrens can also get in.  It does keep out the sparrows and other nest predators, thank goodness.

Kathy Van Der Aue, Southport, CT
kvda at optonline.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Zipp 
  To: Kathy Van Der Aue ; ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Hummingbirds and others, banding


  Kathy, You might try putting a small "portal" sized for a chickadee that would exclude most house sparrows and avert disaster.  They also keep the woodpeckers from making the holes bigger as well.

  Jim 
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  ----- Original Message ----
  From: Kathy Van Der Aue <kvda at optonline.net>
  I have moved a nearby box to the other side of the yard as a 
  precaution against the house wrens who would kill the nestlings if they were 
  within the wren's territory (about 50 yds, I believe).

  Kathy Van Der Aue, Southport, CT