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Thread ID: 146569	2018-09-12 02:49:00	Sparrow Sentinels	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1453548	2018-09-12 02:49:00	We have noticed that shortly after throwing some bread crusts out on the lawn, the sparrows are there having their fill. How do they know there are bread crusts on the lawn? I am of the opinion that there is a sparrow sentinel in the trees watching for when crusts are thrown out on the lawn and he alerts the other birds and before long sparrows have come from everywhere. I have also noticed that there seems to be more females than males. If they don't have a sentinel, then do they come across the crusts by chance? I don't think so as there is only a short time between when the crusts are thrown out and when they arrive. Otherwise we don't see sparrows all that often. Is there a case for a sparrow sentinel? What do you think?	Roscoe (6288)
1453549	2018-09-12 03:06:00	probably think the same we did 6 months ago when you asked exactly the same thing I think that the sparrows must have a sparrow that is on lookout duty waiting for some bread to be thrown out onto the lawn . Otherwise how do all the local sparrows know that there is bread on the lawn? I'm quite certain that they have some sort of system that tell all the nearby sparrows that lunch is up . Have you noticed that it takes very little time for a flock to gather? Does that happen at your place? . pcworld . co . nz/showthread . php?146017-Do-you-think-sparrows-have-lookouts" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz	bevy121 (117)
1453550	2018-09-12 04:02:00	It's not always the same sparrows. Yes they do watch out for any food, and hang about where there is likely to be food - which is why you see them about supermarkets and lunch shops too. They don't sit there, but they do check in now and then. We feed them sometimes here, and they know...so they always come check, well some do...it's always morning. If I do throw something out in the evening, there may be a few, but heaps less, cause they've wandered off to whereever else they go. Mornings, there will be loads of them And, yes, birds, all animals actually communicate. Just because we don't understand them doesn't mean they don;'t have meaningful and quite involved conversations. That's been proven with certain studies now. So probably there's some hey look, yum, great stuff, and the others hear and fly over....	piroska (17583)
1453551	2018-09-12 04:21:00	They are also quite good at telling the time and appear to recognise anyone who regularly feeds them.	CliveM (6007)
1453552	2018-09-12 05:00:00	probably think the same we did 6 months ago when you asked exactly the same thing Watch out, everybody! The self proclaimed repeat police, bevy121, is on the job and is watching you all closely. It seems that you are not allowed to broach the same subject twice. Thank goodness we have bevy121 to keep us on the straight and narrow.:waughh:	Roscoe (6288)
1453553	2018-09-12 05:45:00	Roscoe the male sparrows' are all on our property. How do they know it's Spring on the 1 September, a male and female have cased our provided bird "letter box", but Saturday they were hard at building their nest. They also know when it's mealtime here too, but we throw out crusts at anytime of the day, must be their birdseye view. lurking.	Lurking (218)
1453554	2018-09-12 06:15:00	They are flocking around my backyard at the moment but they are noisy buggers in the morning at sunrise.	Bobh (5192)
1453555	2018-09-13 03:47:00	How do they know it's Spring on the 1 September. They don't. It's just hormones and the warmer weather.	piroska (17583)
1453556	2018-09-15 05:07:00	They don't . It's just hormones and the warmer weather . Could say "how" to that but I won't . Here's my experience with fate/co-incidence: Lived in "pig island" for 29 years, was offered a job in Dunedin for 200 pounds pa more and took it . Made the move south to Dunedin in February 1962 "warmer weather", met my partner, "hormones" I suppose, followed her up to ChCh . where her parents lived and we were married end of October 1964, springtime . It's here where fate made its move, I took a temp . position for 6 months before a good position at a mill manufacturer's office became available . While working there I came across shipping records from the 1930's, for product being shipped to the N . I . , to where I lived at that time, it was to my Grandfather’s business . Now, as fate would have it, I attended an accounting conference in Auckland and met a fellow accountant from Gore, during talk time he mentioned the name of a father and son combo who did building work at his mill, same company name where I was working and it so happens they were b/h's grandfather and g-grandfather . Should have sent this into Ripley's believe it or not . In the N . I . before the shift I was almost tricked into getting married, did get engaged, but it turned out to be a false prego, hormones again . lurking . ps . Jen sorry to have digressed on this one . lurking .	Lurking (218)
1453557	2018-09-15 08:45:00	Yeah, sparrows are opportunistic, they disappear in winter from the countryside over the colder months, and come back when its warmer. At the moment it's all tui's and wood pigeons in our Kōwhai trees here (North Waikato.)	Laggard (17509)
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