My mulch-spreading technique consists of sitting on the ground on my butt and flinging handfuls of shredded hardwood from the bag next to me: Fling, fling, fling. Fling, fling, fling. They try to keep such extreme measures to a minimum, focusing first on preventing house sparrows from nesting in bluebird boxes. If a sparrow has nested in a bluebird house, they’ll remove the nest or the eggs. Should house sparrows and European starlings — both imported from England by misguided humans — suffer?

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2018 19:52 UTC