Birdsnests in machinery

[davidroberts30]

Got a robins nest with 3 just hatched eggs in a machine i need on friday
Any way of moving it without messing them up?
Obviously i can just grab it and move it but just leave it as close as possible to where it was in hope mum finds them?

 

[Still Farming]

Borrow another machine???

 

[Skintagain]

Got a robins nest with 3 just hatched eggs in a machine i need on friday
Any way of moving it without messing them up?
Obviously i can just grab it and move it but just leave it as close as possible to where it was in hope mum finds them?

It will spook it. I hate it when this happens. Jobs have been known to wait.

 

[davidroberts30]

Borrow another machine???

Not possible

 

[Skintagain]

Not possible

What is the machine?

 

[glasshouse]

Not possible

They will nest again

 

[Minesapint]

It’s a pain. Wagtails are determined to build a nest on the sprayer. Have removed 2 this week, before any eggs. They are industrious little buggers. Have had 1 brood already in their usual spot behind a damaged sheet on a gable.

 

[Blue.]

The badger wasn’t very considerate when it emptied a ducks nest and killed the duck in my straw shed last week,just move it as near as possible.

 

[Tim G]

Before my mother in law was my mother in law, I used to deliver silage bales to her. I was allowed to use her old mf 590 to unload but under strict instructions to be quick and park it up exactly as I found it. I later found out it was because there were birds nesting in the post of the loader frame.

 

[JeremyD]

Wagtail keeps nesting in the flower pot guard cover thing on my jd sprayer!

 

[wr.]

Had a blackbird nest in the roller a few years ago and I needed it to roll spring barley for a few days. I just moved the nest onto the mower next to the roller and put it back each day after using it and the mother kept rearing the young ones. May be different with eggs though.

 

[Pan mixer]

Mate could have a problem come harvest.

 

[goodevans]

Mate could have a problem come harvest.

The 1 time you hope for a late harvest

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Had a blackbird nest on the sprayer the last 5yrs, if I spot it quick enough she gets evicted before any eggs are layed, she is persistent tho and doesn't take long to rebuild, have put up nest boxes in shed to try to encourage anyone to use those instead of machines

 

[Suckndiesel]

It was fairly common in New Zealand to see farmers leaving the older tractors bonnet side panels off all the time as the birds would nest in round the engine causing fires.

 

[Exfarmer]

Regularly had wagtails nest in irrigators parents used to follow iot around the fields with no issues, but used to get very cross when we had to move close to the controls to set it

 

[kiwi pom]

Probably a good time to remind everyone to have good prestart checks on your tractors/vehicles. Very common source of fires.

 

[DrWazzock]

Blackbirds nest under the metering roller on my Stocks wizard seeder.
Last year I had a wasps nest in the frame of my paraplow and a bumble bee nest in the front axle box section of my beet harvester.
Loads of bees this year. They are everywhere.

 

[Sailorsam]

bird nest top of my propane tank. gave the gas man a jump.

mouse (or some small rodent) likes to build nest in my riding mower. end of the day I have to remove the engine cowl.