Re: Novice and need id help 11 photos of finch or sparrow or similar feeding young

Bob G wrote:
On Mar 28, 8:44 pm, The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly
Known as Nina DiBoy' <me...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob G wrote:
I am new to bird identification. I enjoy photographing them but with
somewhat defective color vision I have never been good at actually
identifying the exact species. I have a family of small birds in a
bird house in my back yard that have reached the stage where they
have grown to the point that their parents can no longer enter the
birdhouse to feed them. The parents are now feeding them from the
perch in front of the entrance and trying to coax them out. I know
there are at least two inside. I took some time lapse photos of them
feeding and placed them in an on line picassa album. Eleven photos of
them today were placed athttp://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/FinchFeedingTheirYoung#53183...
I took these photos with a ten megapixel Nikon Coolpix set for
interval photography, one shot every 30 seconds. I would appreciate
help in the exact identification. The neighbors here call them finches
but as I go through the guidebooks I can’t verify that. The closest
bird I can find is a black throated sparrow.
I have a number of shots of the parents taken when they had to enter
the birdhouse at
http://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/WildlifeInArizona#5314972079...
In each case the right arrow atop the photos will navigate through the
album. Feel free to use the left arrow also and let me know if I have
misidentified any of the others.
Thanks
Bob G
Surprise, AZ
Looks to me like house sparrows. They are a nuisance and probably best
not to offer your bird house to them.- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks. The birds have been using the bird house for a couple of
years and have not shown themselves yet to be a nuisance. The
birdhouse is the only place they nest around the yard. We have doves
nesting everywhere plus a few cactus wrens that object to our being in
the same yard with them and what looks like a starling living high in
our saguaro.
The birdhouse has a feeder under it and until we stopped feeding a few
years ago nothing would nest there, The feeder attract lots of
grackles. Last summer we had quail nesting in our miniature rose pots.
How would you keep them out of the bird house short of taking it down?

Bob G

When I say nuisance, I mean they often take the nesting spots of native birds which contribute to the decline in numbers of native species. For starters to discourage them from nesting there in the future, you can take out the perch. You should also checkout the "Birdhouse questions, please" thread in this group and you can also get good info on the internet about how to encourage only native species of birds to nest in your birdhouse. Good luck, and enjoy your nesting birds, it sounds like you have alot there.
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