This photo taken rather aptly on Friday lunchtime at home shows that there are still House Sparrows to fledge. They nest wherever they can access which in this case means under the pantiles on the house and garage roofs and despite their scratching and cheeping they are welcome guests.
Male House Sparrow feeding one of his young
It would be nice to be able to ring them as nestlings and complete Nest Records for them but sadly I don't think that removing tiles would be very popular. This, however, must be the third or fourth nest to successfully fledge young so far this year - I can see the food bill rising again! It will be interesting to see if any of these youngsters are recruited into population that seem to spend most of the winter in the garden. Questions that could be answered when my 'C' permit arrives and I can put a net in the garden.
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