Nesting Birds....in weird places...

[alexander72]

I have a day off today to take one of my horses to the vets.  spending time in my barn I have 1 wren nest, 1 robin nest, 3 blue tit nests and about 25 swallows.... and dormice in the hay rick.

 

What a cracking day to sit and watch wildlife.....

 

Any one else got any nesting birds in interesting places.

[Tricky]

Married a bird 21 years ago and she's still nesting with me, quite rare these days.

On a serious note come across them in chimney and boiler flues occasionally, can be quite entertaining chasing a magpie covered with soot around a pristine living room.

[Mooch]

Went to light my lounge fire at New year and beat a hasty retreat as the room filled with smoke.  Jackdaws had built a nest up there.  I got the drain rods out to clear it and you would not believe the amount of stuff that came down - filled the fireplace twice over with twigs and moss.  I've now had bird proof cowels fitted to our chimneys to prevent a re-occurrence.

[Tricky]

Worst I ever came across was a house in Sheffield that had reported a snake missing from their collection of 13 snakes and 2 large lizards.

Turned out the offending corn snake had taken up residence in the heat exchanger of the gas fire, I removed the fire and it obliged by extracting itself.

[Norman Verona]

We have swallows nesting in the old house, lovely to watch them fly in and out all day. The Owl has moved from my workshop to the long barn. We now have a visit from a Heron morning and night, no idea why, it stands in the pond but there's no fish there, maybe it's after frogs. Yesterday there was a friend repairing the roof over the gites and he saw a fox cub, I've never seen a fox here.

 

We have mice, enough to create a mouse army. We also see rats. HM watched one the other day outside the house, it looked up at her and carried on doing whatever it was doing. HM didn't help by opening a rat restaurant, aka a composter.

 

We've seen a snake but there no problem as long as you don't approach them.  Rule is - never walk in long grass.

 

I married my bird 45 years ago. She still flies around catching insects to feed me.

[SteveD]

just watching two birds over the road

[alexander72]

[Norman Verona]

Steve, they're not birds, they're dogs.

[John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO]

they must be large dogs, if you can see them from there!

[Captain Colonial]

There's a pair of finches nesting in the wall mounted cigarette butt bin at our local train station, despite the fact that there's a nesting box above it.  Now no one can smoke at the station.

 

Dennis Eagle (of refuse truck fame) is just down the road.  One of their customers was jinxed, never had a truck delivered on time.  Last one was where the chassis was parked in the yard, and when they went to bring it in to the factory, the driver found a robn's nest on the rear behind the cab.  Instead of waiting until the birds had flown off and then moving the nest to the shrubs immediately behind the chassis, the idiot called the RSPB, who immediately came out and put a protection notice on it.  The truck was delivered two months late.

[Dommo]

Thinking of this, whatever happened to house martins? I remember them building a nest under the roof of the house when I was young, they used to be reasonably common.

[alexander72]

we have martins Dommo 

[Norman Verona]

A customer of ours was having a new dealership built. The builders were excavating the site and needed to remove some trees. There were nesting birds in one of the trees. All worked stopped as they were not allowed to cut the tree down with the birds in it. In the end Brian altered the plans and turned the dealership round so the tree is now in the car park.

[CedricTheBrave]

Have some nice tits in my garden

[woodman]

There are some swifts or swallows nesting on the electric motor that powers our dust extraction.

every time it starts up they get shaken to a blur and almost blown away by the fan but they seem to cope!