Hosp question
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Buckeye658793
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Tue May 18, 2021 6:16 pm
- Location: Ohio
I have been fighting a male hosp that has been around my colony for about 2 weeks shot at him and missed him several times with pellet gun and he became very skittish well today his luck ran out and he has been eliminated I lowered the gourd rack and cleaned out the hosp nest it had 3 eggs in it my question is will the female stick around or will she leave I have never seen her.By the way my colony now has at least 15 to 20 birds spending the night and I have 2 nests with eggs.
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C.C.Martins
- Posts: 3368
- Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:15 am
- Location: Corpus Christi Tx
- Martin Colony History: 2016- Visitors.
2017- 5 pair. 15 fledged
2018- 18 pair. 85 fledged
2019- 17 pair. 81 fledged
2020- 25 pair. 111 fledged
2021- 28 pair. 118 fledged
2022- 33 pair. 151 fledged
2023- 33 pair. 165 fledged
2024- 40 pair. 185 fledged
2025- 40 pair. 181 fledged
HOSP:
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 49 PMCA excluder gourds; 16 room Lonestar Goliad with Modified Excluder entrances.
2019: Visitors
2020: 3 pair, 11 fledged
2021: 10 pair, 30 fledged
2022: 11 pair, 35 fledged
2023: 18 pair, 101 fledged
2024: 39 pair, 181 fledged
2025: 51 pair, 216 fledged
PMCA member
Good job! Glad you got him. She may not return but be on the watch. She may get a mate and return, one LL named a female black window as they kept killing the males she attracted.
To get them after shooting the male, you could leave the nest alone, narrow the opening to 1 1/4 inches and place a black glue trap in the very bottom of the nest, place the eggs right on it. Watch like a hawk....dont leave unattended please.
She will go right in and you have her. Just for the future, your problem may be over now.
Good job on that sparrow, fantastic news, hard to get one who knows your after it.
Tom
To get them after shooting the male, you could leave the nest alone, narrow the opening to 1 1/4 inches and place a black glue trap in the very bottom of the nest, place the eggs right on it. Watch like a hawk....dont leave unattended please.
She will go right in and you have her. Just for the future, your problem may be over now.
Good job on that sparrow, fantastic news, hard to get one who knows your after it.
Tom
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23