Re: [MDOsprey] was sparrows/bluebird boxes

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Dear Bonnie,

There is a box design that can be found at your local Wild Bird Center that 
has a hole in the top which is covered by a screen. Apparently, the bluebirds 
do not mind the skylight effect but sparrows do not like it. I have not tried 
this myself. My only hope this year, after several seasons of emotional bouts 
with English sparrows killing my baby bluebirds, has been to have a wonderful 
and licensed friend (who happens to be a naturalist) come over with his 12 
gauge shot gun and do away with the last of the killing line of sparrows. 
"My" bluebirds are now in their third nesting!! Oh Joy! I wish I had done it 
sooner. Good luck.

Katharine Patterson
Butler, MD

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