House Sparrow Facts, How to Trap Sparrows with a Live Catch System. They kill Eastern Bluebirds

Nice video and excellent trap. Used to build large 6'X6'X6' Troyer V - traps for Euro. Starlings. They work very well and some days I would catch 35 - 40 birds in 24 hours. I used garbage for bait and always had water available in the trap area.. As you point out it's very important to monitor the traps -- one afternoon I had trapped about 15 Starlings. The next time I looked at the trap chaos was prevailing. An immature female Cooper's Hawk had entered the trap and proceeded to kill 3 Starlings -- the trapped Starlings were panicking and fighting back at the same time. It was a mess to untangle -- but I got the hawk out unharmed -- but with a lot of bird shit on my coveralls. I released her but she stayed in a tree in the yard until I took the 3 dead Starlings out of the cage and put them on the ground. The hawk immediately snatched one as soon as I was out of sight. It was dusk and all three were gone the next morning. It was a very cold winter and I surmise that the hawk, not having refined her hunting skills yet, was very hungry - she had to be to take such chances?

You might try using just millet and/or bread crumbs for bait. It might discourage the good birds and attract the trash sparrows. I only use millet in my trap. This is a great trap, I have two of them.

I host nesting bluebirds, tree swallows, woodpeckers and purple martins. I have one of these traps installed on a shed with an indoor roosting compartment. I only use white bread as an attractant and I keep a few house sparrows live in that trap that act as decoys. It makes it much more effective. There is nothing worse then having house sparrows or Starlings devastate your cavity-nesting birds that you are trying to preserve. Fred you and I are similar thinking people. I wish there were more people like you. On a side note I started keeping chickens 2 years ago.

I have used this trap for years with great success trapping house sparrows. I now raise 2 clutches of bluebirds per year on my farm. These sparrows love to hang around farms. I bait with straight cracked corn from Tractor Supply. I rarely ever get any other species but house sparrows.

your voice is incredibly soothing. and your videos are so informative. i live in a city centre at the moment, so i can't keep the bees or chickens I'd like to be keeping. but i get to live vicariously through your channel 😍 thank you for all the awesome work you do

Need to identify House Sparrows? Here is a helpful link: SEE Eggs - Hatchlings - Juvenile - Adult - Male - Female - Nest Materials www.sialis.org/nestshosp.htm Please Watch This Video... this trap can be used to collect female house sparrows, put them in your trap system to attract those killer male house sparrows. Great combination approach if you have a large problem. https://youtu.be/AT6sQDvJMNo

Nice video Fred. I have used a couple of these traps for past 10 years and they work great. When actively trapping, I try to leave a couple live House Sparrows (we call them decoys) in the trap to draw in more. These highly social birds are attracted to more of their kind and other native species are more likely to stay away when they are in there. Trap is also very effective during winter months for capturing a LOT of European Starlings (non-native bird that also kills our native cavity nesters). It only works for them when there is a little snow cover, and especially when snow is flying. Trap baited with peanut butter at back of bait tray and weighted for larger bird works great. Important if leaving decoys in trap to feed and water them.

Thanks for sharing. I haven’t seen this design in before, online it’s just funnel traps. I’m going to upgrade my Indian myna bird trap. Also loving your flow hive videos.

Frederick-- Ive mentioned this before but enjoyed watching your double suet cage vid many times , the music blends well. I have the same cage but after a period of time the house sparrows mobbed it and I no longer use it and the starlings were a pest too. So I made a couple upside down suet feeders which eliminated the HS and only an occasional starling which I can live with.

It’s a good day when u shoot house sparrows and starlings. We have blue birds and purple Martins.

I think that's so funny about the white crowned sparrow. He's figured out an easy meal with pretty much no one else to take the food. And you let him go without hurting him so he's loving that.

I ordered mine and getting it today in the mail. Last year English house sparrows killed one of my adult Male bluebirds right in the nest box. The year before, they pierced the eggs and tossed them out of the box. The chicks inside were developed enough for me to see them. They want a war? Now it's on! I notice that you dont have baffles or sparrow spookers. The baffle is good to keep snakes out. I had that problem also before putting them up

I love how the Whitecrown returns to the trap and looks like it has a sinking feeling something unpleasant might happen again.

Beautiful video of that Crown Sparrow. Wild birds like this most of the time will get tame only to the person that handles them. I don't think anyone else will be able to get this close to him. Birds are very good at recognizing individuals.

This Fred enjoyed Fred's showing.Made me order one.Hope it works for me .After research,I don't want the bad guys around.I like the ability to adjust sensitivity.

when i was young i was compelled by a mysterious blue bird that appeared in my hometown. I was never really into electronics on tv heh...so I spent the summer trying to catch it!😂 I did a lot of research and even built a trap just like this! but not as sophisticated. but...m I caught a bunch of sparrows instead. I ended up making a good ole fashioned stick trap heh. tied a thin rope to a stick and placed a basket on the end of the stick and it took a few days but with a few bags of peanuts and a little luck I got it! it was a western scrub Jay. I observed it for a few hours then set it free. just thought I'd share heh. awesome vid and I can't believe how calm you are when handling those birds!

Hi. I learned a lot about the bird and trap

Enjoyed your video viewing from Dublin, Ireland

The 'unused' screw on the door can be backed out a bit and used as a handle to open the door.

This is a great informational and entertaining vid of this sparrow trap. I recently purchased and setup this trap 2 days ago , no birds in it as yet. I have the bait feed on the trap as displayed here. I have the trap on a table maybe 3' high. I also have a birdhouse sparrow trap ready and waiting and when I get a house sparrow will put it in the elevator trap as a decoy.