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 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]