Sparrow nesting material.

chickadee · Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:54 pm

I want to fill my blains trap with nesting material for the sparrows. What will make them go crazy? Besides feathers I can't find any of those. Thanks

Berndog · Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:38 pm

Chickadee,What's a blains trap ?

chickadee · Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:48 pm

Blaines trap. My iPad keeps changing words. I don't pay attention. Sorry. And it is a baited sparrow trap. Any idea what to put in it?

BuddyS · Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:57 pm

I found an old couch pillow stuffed with more feathers than I could ever use. Or you can use strips of TP or shredded paper or (fill in garbage item here).

Tim Mangan-Kansas · Wed Apr 16, 2014 5:38 am

In addition to nesting material, I place a few grains of bird seed on the landing platform.

Tim

Bob Rogers · Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:47 am

Some landlords due put in nesting materials (dried grass/straw/string, etc.) into their sparrow traps. I find bread scraps much more effective. Most lawns contain natural/abundant bird building materials anyway, so why would house sparrows or English starlings enter a scary trap for what is already very and safely available?. Trash birds are drawn to trash food like a magnet! Just watch a fast food parking lot.('

') Good luck.

chickadee · Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:31 am

so I need to go to McDonalds and pick up some fry's? lol

DornCounty · Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:05 am

cigarette butts... and pieces of twinney plastic strips.. 1/8" wide or less.

John Miller · Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:43 am

As buddy said, next best bait to feathers would be strips of white tissue, if they are actively building nests. Sparrows line their nests with this stuff.
John M

BuddyS · Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:46 am

Just caught 2 hosp this morning in separate traps. One was with bread as bait, the other with feathers from a pillow in a Havahart chipmunk trap. The little buggers think they're stealing from me.