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>>232695 >well, maybe if you go and politely tell them that it is a WOODPECKER box, and not a SPARROW box, they'd leave.
Nah, that doesn't work. Male sparrows are very territorial, and when they pick a nest site, they keep coming back to it. If another bird is there, they kill that bird and any eggs they find. If they find their nest and eggs gone, or feel they are under pressure, they go nuts and punitively destroy all other birds and nests in the area.
>>232704 >wouldn't it be easier to just skip the whole light thing and jsut catch them while they're asleep, if you can manage to sneak up to them and not wake them up?
You have to get the male, because he's the one that builds the nest and attacks other birds, and its usually the female that's on the nest at night. And like I said, if the male finds the nest gone in the morning, he often takes it out on more desirable birds, then builds another nest anyways.
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