Tammy,
How do you keep the decoy alive? The other night I caught two house sparrows in a cavity trap inside my purple martin barn. My dog knocked the sparrow trap over as I was trying to open the side of my repeating trap and the male got away. I did get the female inside the repeating trap. I had food and water inside the trap. By the end of the day she had expired. I had this problem last year, too. The sparrows always expire before attracting other house sparrows into the trap.
