Actually there is a pair of them.Oh Boy!!!!!!!!
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Now with my first thriving colony .I have a sparrow(first one ever)using my T-14 with a crescent.How do I catch him?Hes slick when it comes to a gun! Actually there is a pair of them.
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starling shooter
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- Location: Central MO
You can glue trap them if you know they are committed. Just make sure you are there to watch.
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Donnie Hurdt MN
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- Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:14 pm
- Location: North Prairie, MN
I have heard of people doing this so I will run it by you. If you cant get the sparrows by shooting/trapping put a stepladder up under your housing for a couple of days till the sparrows get used to it and when they are both in their room for the night quietly climb the ladder and use a short pole with somthing on the end of it to plug the hole. This has to be done delicatly as not to scare the martins. Then next morning you can unplug the hole and let the sparrows fly into whatever you put over the hole, a two liter pop bottle should work. Good luck.
PMCA member and Martin fanatic....
2011 A pair of subbies fledged three young but none returned in 2012
2015 One Pair of subbies came and stayed a few nits but got chased away by Bluebirds and Tree swallows.
2017 0ne pair of subbies nested and fledged 4 young
2018 Tree Swallows AGAIN chased away any martins that wanted to nest
2019 Same old story................
2011 A pair of subbies fledged three young but none returned in 2012
2015 One Pair of subbies came and stayed a few nits but got chased away by Bluebirds and Tree swallows.
2017 0ne pair of subbies nested and fledged 4 young
2018 Tree Swallows AGAIN chased away any martins that wanted to nest
2019 Same old story................
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CUL Lou~Mich
I've used a glass quart jar for sometime now. It's clear, and the EHS seem to go in really quickly. Once inside, a shot of starting fluid takes care of them in short order. CUL Lou
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Emil Pampell-Tx
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- Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:26 pm
- Location: Tx, Richmond (SW of Houston)
- Martin Colony History: First started in Gretna, La in 1969 with a small homemade house, have had martins ever since at 2 different homes in Texas
Donnie, I have a story about sticking something into the hole to trap the sparrows inside, except mine was a starling.
I had a starling that would zip into the gourd, I never could get a shot at it. The gourd was an old used roundholed gourd that I didn't plan to use, but I needed one more gourd, so I put it up, the last open place on the gourd rack. It didn't even have an access hole, as I never planned to use it again. Wouldn't you know that a starling found the round hole and had a nest in it. I took a flower stalk that was about 1-1/2 inch big, and shoved it into the hole while the starling was in it, shoved it about 11inches into the gourd. It was late in the day, so I planned to remove the gourd and nest the next morning. The next morning it was there so I thought I would wait until the martins were out of most of the gourds. About 11 o'clock I went there and that starling had pushed that stalk out of the gourd, and it was gone. I took down the gourd, and the starlings eggs had already hatched and there were babies in there, so I killed them, but the starling never came back again.. I still cannot believe that the starling pushed that long heavy flower stalk all the way out of the gourd. They are smart birds, and I hate them...
I had a starling that would zip into the gourd, I never could get a shot at it. The gourd was an old used roundholed gourd that I didn't plan to use, but I needed one more gourd, so I put it up, the last open place on the gourd rack. It didn't even have an access hole, as I never planned to use it again. Wouldn't you know that a starling found the round hole and had a nest in it. I took a flower stalk that was about 1-1/2 inch big, and shoved it into the hole while the starling was in it, shoved it about 11inches into the gourd. It was late in the day, so I planned to remove the gourd and nest the next morning. The next morning it was there so I thought I would wait until the martins were out of most of the gourds. About 11 o'clock I went there and that starling had pushed that stalk out of the gourd, and it was gone. I took down the gourd, and the starlings eggs had already hatched and there were babies in there, so I killed them, but the starling never came back again.. I still cannot believe that the starling pushed that long heavy flower stalk all the way out of the gourd. They are smart birds, and I hate them...
Get a sheet of cardboard or metal and put in a 1 3/8 dia hole. This will let in the sparrow, but the martin cant get in. Tape it to the hole the sparrows are using. Inside put a sheet of sticky mouse trap. The male is the one you want he has the darker head. Observe for a while. If one goes in wait awhile longer just in case the other jumps in. It worked for me!