bangalore the concrete city might have forced sparrows to take wing but some bangaloreans are sure trying to bring home the backyard birds having distributed over 100 bamboo nests in the last two years gandhi krishi vignan kendra gkvk is constantly looking at ways to lure maximum number of sparrows these bamboo nests failed to attract many we are now working at designing our next set these will be square shaped with a wooden plank on top along with clean drinking water and food said ak chakravarthy head of the department of entymology gkvk sparrow corridors are being created to attract the birds in groups patches of vegetation are being made too we are looking at turning areas into sparrowfriendly zones by making them free from electromagnetic towers chakravarthy pointed out i thought it would be a good idea to get home a nest it has been quite a while since we sighted sparrows in our locality now much to our surprise these birds have started moving into our nests said vinayak deshpande resident of padmanabhanagar vinayak placed a sparrow nest in his independent house a month ago we decided to invest in a sparrow nest for our children it hangs in our garden and we have customized it by adding a small basket filled with grains in it the sparrow count is not too high but we have managed to bring back at least some birds said sunita reddy a resident of banerghatta