House sparrows?

[ShadyBrady]

Most every bit of media I find on them they look darker in color than this so i thought id defer to somone with more experience. I have these guys wandering around in large numbers just wiping my bird feeders OUT. I think these are also the fellas trying to nest in my attic....ive put up new screen on attic vents twice now.Are these house sparrows?

















































 

[dizzums]

that there is one of them 'tweety birds' lol .. my philosophy is nothing gets a death sentence because of what it is .. and if your feeding birds its not ethical to decide which one is pretty enough to eat at the feeder .. but if theyre actually pests, nothing wrong with thinning them out for their own good haha ..

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

Those look like common finch, females. Protected... but I'm not telling you what to do or don't do.

Remember the 3S rule:
Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

 

[john8]

I concur, looks like finches.

 

[ShadyBrady]

Lolz. 3 s's. Damn I gotta remember that one! I'm planning to go to a chicken wire type mesh, I'm hoping that holds up better than screen. I don't mind the finches, just don't want house sparrows on my dime

 

[ShadyBrady]

Ok hold up.im notshooting anything one way or the other, and didnt claim i was.just wanted to ID them. Defenitely don't need an ethics lesson on what I can and can't do at my own damn feeders

 

[ShadyBrady]

Thanks guys. My daughter hangs these all over the yard. Mostly cardinals and bluebirds lately. Biggest pest is usually squirrels, just seeing if a new competitor rolled into town lol

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

Ok hold up.im notshooting anything one way or the other, and didnt claim i was.just wanted to ID them. Defenitely don't need an ethics lesson on what I can and can't do at my own damn feeders

Then why post this in the hunting gate if you weren't planning on.... hunting?

 

[ShadyBrady]

Because I figured hunters can identify a species they probably hunt

 

[ShadyBrady]

We have a family farm for critter blasting it isn't something I usually do at home in my neighborhood. I'm hard pressed to even plink here. I'm always just surprised at the amount of moralizing people feel obligated to do for a simple comment or question.

 

[Triglav]

Those look like common finch, females. Protected... but I'm not telling you what to do or don't do.

Remember the 3S rule:
Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

Correct! These don't exactly look like sparrows... Sparrows have these streaks of white and black lines across their brown feathers, and a grey "cap" on their head, as well as a white belly.

 

[ShadyBrady]

When I lived out in no man's land, you could shoot starlings till you were tired of shooting. Haven't had any sparrows that I remember. This gang of birds just seemed a Lil rowdy for the local songbird population. They even managed to bully a couple of Robin's off my porch. Strength in numbers I guess

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

We have a family farm for critter blasting it isn't something I usually do at home in my neighborhood. I'm hard pressed to even plink here. I'm always just surprised at the amount of moralizing people feel obligated to do for a simple comment or question.

Gotcha. Yeah, I don't care either way what people do, long as they don't force their crap on me. Way I see it, if I see 100 birds of the same kind and they're pushing everything else out, it needs to be balanced. Those finches do the exact same crap as the house sparrows, but they get a pass because they are indigenous.

 

[ShadyBrady]

I'm sorry that was an overreaction on my part... I was just enjoying a YouTube video of an airgun review the other day and the very first comment I read was basically...oh thank goodness you aren't one of those guys shooting squirrels on a box". And I thought... what the hell is wrong with shooting pest species over bait? They are destructive and a nuisance, and as long as somone does it responsibly and ethically, what business is it of anyones? I guess the internet be like that

 

[Struckat]

Other Brown Birds: photos of house sparrows, house wrens, house finch, chipping sparrow, cowbird, carolina wren and how to tell them apart

General information on how to attract nesting bluebirds, including distinguishing nests and eggs of other cavity nesters, heat, dealing with house sparrows, data on bluebird trail.

www.sialis.org

HOSP Identification. Fire at will.

 

[Ranchibi]

I believe them to be house finches, they have thicker beaks that overlap each other.

 

[ShadyBrady]

I guess they kind of resemble the lighter color female hosp? But if that's the case, I have a gang of like 15 female only birds hanging out lol, so maybe it is finches.

 

[Triglav]

I guess they kind of resemble the lighter color female hosp? But if that's the case, I have a gang of like 15 female only birds hanging out lol, so maybe it is finches.

Wow, 15?! What happened to the male population, did the women nag them to death or something?

 

[ShadyBrady]

Exactly lol So i think they are just finches

 

[crosman2016]

I believe them to be house finches, they have thicker beaks that overlap each other.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. In Indiana, they are an evasive bird...they seem to chase everything else away. They are tough little buggers.