to wish death on all sparrows?

[BillBrysonsRucksack]

The little buggers eat everything I plant!

I'm frickin' fed up with planting lovely veg only to have the sparrows eat all the seedlings.

What can I do?

Netting over the seedlings?

Where do you live?

We normally net the peas but this year they've started on the runner beans as well.

I live in Worcestershire bemy, why do you ask?

are you sure it's sparrows? pigeons follow you around here, picking seeds out of the ground before you get the chance to cover them!

but netting is the way to go

Actually it might be the pigeons that have eaten the beans.

I know the sparrows eat the peas though. I hate those little brown scrotes!

Poor little sparrows. They're only going what nature intended.

I'm tempted to see if someone from Countryfile or somesuch can come and organise a relocation programme for them.

Otherwise they may find themselves forcibly evicted.....

aww

so unreasonable I don't know where to start? They are in serious decline, all sparrows are I think

Sparrows are indeed in serious decline. Dear little creatures too, it's a tragedy.

OP, YABVVVVU.

Mitchiest, i think you are correct. They have been in serious decline for years, no hedges in gardens anymore, and there was a virus affecting smaller wild birds last winter, killing many more off.

I'm sure the OP was tongue in cheek, and is not really going to cull our little friends

I was asking because I understand sparrows are almost an endangered spicies across England these days, thought you may say "Paris" . As beaker said, are you sure it is sparrows' who are responsible? Although you answered already "no". (Lots of xposts, sorry).

Lets start again:
"The little buggers eat everything I plant!

I'm frickin' fed up with planting lovely veg only to have the sparrows eat all the seedlings.

What can I do?"

Take up knitting.