House Sparrows are an obvious plague at feeders in winter, and they nested
in our yard last summer in woodpecker cavity, much to my disappointment.
But I hadn't seen the sparrows this summer until last week, maybe a day
after I'd noticed Japanese Beetles.  I'd suspected in the past that what the
HOSP were eating in the Chinese wisteria were Japanese beetles, and we had
fewer beetles the following years..  I just saw a HOSP knock a Japanese
beetle onto the patio and pounce on it.  So I have a seasonal appreciation
for the "English" sparrows.  (We don't have bluebird habitat).

Still working on defeating the Chinese wisteria, but the beetles are eating
our Virginia Creeper now too..



Susanna Heideman

SW Columbus/Galloway, Franklin County


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