From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.rec.birds Title: Re: Thursdays bird Article-I.D.: utah-gr.687 Posted: Thu Jan 20 11:18:25 1983 Received: Sun Jan 23 05:20:54 1983 References: pur-phy.645 Re: attracting birds. I'm not really qualified to answer, since we have mostly house sparrows this year, too. However, I noticed that even while we get only sparrows at the feeder, the back yard is FULL of juncos. I don't get it? Must depend on the type of food - I have heard that if you use, for example, only thistle seed, you won't get sparrows, and will get (more) finches. =Spencer