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Sparrows at Franklin Park Zoo really feathered their nest
By adamg on Sun, 06/07/2015 - 11:04pm
Jef Taylor, who works at the Franklin Park Zoo, shows us the nest a pair of house sparrows built in a weed trimmer stored in a zoo tool cage:
Nest components: grasses, trash, flamingo feathers.
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I hope they removed it to somewhere safe!
Assuming they did, being animal folks. I had no idea sparrow eggs were so pretty.
As a bird lover, I have to disagree.
House sparrows are a scourge. They're invasive & outcompete our native species, like bluebirds, for nesting sites. I would sooner hope someone made a tiny omelette than that they put these pests in a safe place.
Yes, sparrows are like a gang
I have a large bird feeder -- holds over a quart of seed. I used to put mixed seed in, but the sparrows would mob the thing and empty it in about 5 hours, while chasing all the other birds away. I switched to all sunflower seeds, which they apparently don't like as much. Now I get finches, cardinals and other more interesting birds. The sparrows occasionally get some kind of fixation where they have to empty the feeder, and then they do their mob thing, but it's not every day. Also, they are boring as individuals.
Great to see the zoo doing better under Republican leadership
Who can forget when Deval threatened to have several zoo animals put down?
Interesrting
So Charlie Baker is somehow responsible for the profligation of this invasive species? I never would have guessed.
Hey, Fish, the sun is shining
Who can forget how all those Republican governors kept funding the zoo through interest-bearing bonds, rather than appropriations, forcing it to spend more and more of its money just on debt repayment rather than keeping animals alive.
I think his point was
That it's reassuring to see someone feathering his nest with public resources.