Bird Brain

[Arceye]

Caught these cheeky House Martins making a nest on our grain store door, not very clever.
Open the door to load, but they remain undeterred and start back over again when it's closed.
Anyone else have daft nesting places?

 

[Wurzeetoo]

Bedroom window in the old house couldn’t open the thing ?

 

[Dry Rot]

Pigeons started to build a nest on top of a ladder in the open fronted barn. They looked like woodpigeons but I think they were stock doves, a species I have no experience of. Anyway, they gave up, but I've seen them having a look at different times. Apparently, wood pigeons are actually doves and stock doves are actually pigeons (if you happen to be a biologist!).

 

[DrWazzock]

Blackbird usually nested in the JCB 806 engine compartment while it’s laid up over the summer.

 

[organicguy]

Bathroom window left open in summer. 2 days in a row swallows i the house. day 3 half built nest on the inside bathroom door lintel.
we love swallows but not that much!

 

[Kidds]

Blackbird usually nested in the JCB 806 engine compartment while it’s laid up over the summer.

Blackbird nesting on any vehicle that hasn't moved for the last ten minutes!

 

[Eat Sleep Farm Repeat]

Robins in the land rover bumper and also the shoe on the grain trailer.

luckily spotted both so left them alone, both fledged this week.

J

 

[dudders]

Went to get a rope last summer, to find it had been occupied...

 

[dudders]

Looks like that's the end of my spare printer...

3 little beaks can be seen on the right.

 

[Old Boar]

If you pressed copy, do you think you would get 6 little beaks?

 

[Whitepeak]

Luckily we didn't have any shows or sales to prepare for this year!
Wren's nest in the halters at the side of the crush, which is in almost constant use. The nest was never used, but reading up male wrens build several nests and the female then chooses her favourite.

 

[Lackey]

Swallows have been busy building this in the shipping container we use as our calf milk shack. Nicely incorporating the electricity cables into the nest ?

 

[dudders]

Thought this was an air filter...

 

[ImLost]

Went to get a rope last summer, to find it had been occupied...

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Had the same here, a rope in a log shed. Pretty sure it was a wren nesting in it.

 

[dudders]

Back in 2007, swallows nested in my bedroom. Windows were open all day and night. It was pretty magical, although I did have to fumble my way to bed in the dark each night and nip out in the morning between bird visits. They roosted on top of the wardrobe and would start each morning with a great sing-song before flying outside. I've rented the farmhouse out since, but the nest is still there - photo taken today. They must have used good glue - that nest is 13 years old.

 

[Danllan]

Back in 2007, swallows nested in my bedroom. Windows were open all day and night. It was pretty magical, although I did have to fumble my way to bed in the dark each night and nip out in the morning between bird visits. They roosted on top of the wardrobe and would start each morning with a great sing-song before flying outside. I've rented the farmhouse out since, but the nest is still there - photo taken today. They must have used good glue - that nest is 13 years old.

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Didn't they crap everywhere? I dearly love swallows, but it can't hide the fact that they do make a mess.

 

[dudders]

Sure did, but only under the nest and roosting spot. Couple of bits of plastic sheet looked after that!

 

[Lackey]

Our office swallows are fledging ?

 

[dudders]

Got none here at all this year. Along with no house sparrows or starlings for years now. Plenty of buzzards though...

 

[Dry Rot]

Swallows used to nest in my dog kennels, just feet above six dogs. The dogs would often chase them out of boredom, but only caught one that I know of. The next year they would be back in the same spot.