Unusual Nesting Places (1 Viewer)

eagle golden

Well-known member

• May 10, 2011

• #1

Hi thought I would start a thread on unusual nesting places for birds, as I was working away on my allotment when a movement caught my eye, looking in my patch of ruhbarb, I found a dunnucks nest with five lovely blue egg's, so I must watch them as we have a few preditors, on the alotments.

 

David Smith

Warrington Lancs

• May 11, 2011

• #2

It's probably not too unusual but Sparrows have nested and bred in our Blue tit box.......for years Blue Tits hae reared young from there so why Sparrows this year???????

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• May 12, 2011

• #3

Blue tits are nesting at the top of a 50 feet high floodlight pole by the school near me. Trees all around...

 

Jeanie

Jeanie with one n.

• May 12, 2011

• #4

Some years ago a pair of collar doves started building a nest on our bird table. I was very concerned since it was totally in the open and there are many cats about. I phoned the RSPB and they said that since they had just started nest building I could cover up the bird table. I did this with a thick bright blue plastic bag.
The doves kept trying to get on to the table so a couple of days later I relented and cut a 'door' into the plastic.
End of the story was when 2 chick fledged in front of us. The next year my husband built a lovely dove cote which they never used!!

 

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fugl

Well-known member

• May 12, 2011

• #5

One of the more unusual nests I've found was under the hood of an abandoned junker car in the middle of the Nevada desert miles from anywhere. Like most such jetsam in my home state it was riddled with bullet holes. The bird was a Say's Phoebe & was feeding its nestlings through the narrow crack between the sprung hood & the body of the car.

 

Kentbloke

Ah, yes, well

• May 12, 2011

• #6

Back in the mists of time, well the 1960's actually, we found a blackbirds nest, with eggs - on the ground under a sheet of corrugated iron! It was in the local park in the foresters compound where massive bonfires were a regular occurrence!