How to get rid of Sparrows?

**Chris Parks** · 13th January 2017, 12:56 PM

I recall reading some years ago that the sparrow numbers were falling due to pollution affecting the eggs they laid. It was thought that the eggs had become very weak and broke easily during incubation. Didn't WA have a sparrow patrol that they used to control the birds spread into that state?

**bsrlee** · 13th January 2017, 10:58 PM

You might want to thread some home irrigation pipe through the bushes with a bunch of spray heads. Then when the noisy #^^&* starts up you just turn the hose on 'to water the plants'. He should get the hint that this nesting site is far too wet. And if it fails your plants still get watered as well as fertilized with sparrow poop.

**Boringgeoff** · 14th January 2017, 09:36 AM

I think that continually harassing the little mongrel should eventually pay off. The problems we had with the parrots (28, Australian Ringneck, Port Lincoln Parrot) eating the lawn are starting to ease. We bought some cheap frisbees from K-mart and my wife kept some at the house and I some at the shed. Whenever we noticed a 28 on the lawn we'd chuck a frisbee and they'd be off. It has now got to the stage they know they're not welcome on the lawn and take off as soon as one of us comes on the scene. Just walking past a window is enough to make them take off where previously they didn't seem to recognise us behind the glass. Other parts of the garden where they don't get shooed away from you can walk past without them taking any notice, so they appear to be learning.
We're very lucky in WA to not have sparrows, having grown up with them in NZ I know what a pest they are.