This is the name I have give to my unattached male sparrow. I have mentioned previously about one of my male sparrows who is doing his best to attract a mate. He fluffs himself up, cocks his tail up like a wren, displays his white bits to their best advantage, splays and wags his wings and hops across the garden in the blink of an eye chasing female sparrows. He has been in the garden doing this for about a week now.
The other day he did this, ending up under the hedge. There was such a commotion under there, plenty of noise and chuntering and a lot of rustling of branches and leaves before he emerged with a dunnock in hot pursuit. The dunock caught him and there was a ferocious fight with both birds rolling and tumbling about until eventually the sparrow fled.
Well, just now it happened again, except it wasn't a dunnock but another male sparrow with his wife and baby, right under my window. Randy Andy and the other male locked claws and were fighting to the death, watched noisily by the female and baby. I had to bang on the window to separate them. He is back again, still displaying, but not one female will take him on board. What a shame, poor thing.
Has anyone else had this happen?
Cheers, Linda.
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Hi Linda,
sorry I've missed you post. Haven't been around a great deal recently.
That sounds like a right commotion with that Sparrow and Dunnock! I'm glad you managed to separate them.
I haven't seen behaviour to the extent you have, although I have seen the males fighting (this colony appears to be more male than female).
Looks like its just a case of hormones gone wild!