Sunita Joshi/ Gurgaon
Large sparrow population in and around my house ever since I put up the feeders and the nest boxes. For last two weeks, fights were going on for the boxes and finally a few would very forlornly peep in from the glass windows. Asked MD to send me three nest boxes which could home three families in each. This morning, as one was looking around for a place to put up the first box on the verandah and the box was kept on the ledge, a sparrow couple decided to move in. Had to shoo them away to put the box up. And while we were doing it they waited patiently on the ledge. As soon as we climbed down they flew in and took over one compartment. That really must be a record time. My first nest box took over six months before anyone moved in.