Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:03:33 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Huy Subject: Re: House Sparrows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 04/25/01 06:06:29 Eastern Daylight Time, bott@EROLS.COM writes: > A quick side story- we have a new customer at the store that lived in AA > county. He had a Martin Colony and trapped the sparrows and brought them to > work and released them- here in Columbia! Now he has moved here and has > Bluebirds and is plagued by sparrows. Now he is trapping the sparrows and > killing them. > An excellent point to make. Even if you don't want to shoot the sparrows, get a BB gun anyway. Then if you see someone releasing their sparrows in your area, teach them a lesson... The "humane" method of relocation doesn't seem so favorable. J. Steven Huy Middletown, Maryland, USA mailto: nsawwhet@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================