Tell us about strange nests in 2011

My Grandad found this strange nest at Sizergh Castle while on holiday in the Lake District. There were a small outdoors shop selling various gardening items including nestboxes and one blue tit decided to set up home in one of the nestboxes on display!



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There is a Perigrine Falcon nest across from my widow at work ... not unusal, just showing off that I can watch perigrines when I should be working :-)

we had a group of great tits in our nest box in the garden. they have fledged and what is the chances that they will return next year.

Earlier on in the year a friend of mine had a robin nest in a extractor fan tube from a tumble dryer, 1 of the flaps had broken off, so the robin took advantage, and successfully reared some chicks.

noise quiz:- Manxies !!!

nearby theres a stable that houses a connemara pony inside theres 10 swallow nests and two bluetit nests that are fledging

i forgot to day thatthe bluetits are in the nestbox outside

i found a nest in a shoe once

We have just returned from a few days away in our caravan staying at the Caravan Club site at Culloden, Inverness. At the entrance to both Ladies and Gents toilets there are cigarette stub boxes mounted beside the doors. Both boxes have signs on them stating that cigarettes should not be extinguished as there are blue tits nesting in them! You can hear their squeeks as you enter and leave the loos. Do you think there may be other cigarette boxes containing nests? Perhaps companies/landlords-ladies etc should check! I would not like to think of the consequences of hot cigarettes dropping in beside chicks.... what an awful thought.

Martin, I love the green F-91W! Always great to see a fellow watch nerd :)

i found one in a pot hole once i called the nearest people

A Grey Squirrel Drey in my neighbours garage roof -- https://youtu.be/z34rU5wI69g

A write up I did on it for BBC Birmingham -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2008/11/19/squirrel_feature.shtml

You mentioned All manxie's burrow under ground to mate well nope not all manxie's so. (manxie's also refer's to manx people).

We have just had a Robin nesting in our barbaque it had 5 babys, and they all fledged ok, we got fresh mealworms and they loved them, adult Robins feeding out of our hands.

we got so black birds nesting in the forklift truck at work, she followed me down the field and bk 2day. i'll get u folks a pic 2morrow

In response to the query about whether cigarette boxes are commonly used as nest boxes, I work at a butterfly house near Sheffield where our cigarette box was put out of commission earlier in the year by a family of blue tits (now fledged).



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Saw this and thought it was quite an unusual nesting site !!! https://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/247154-bird-builds-home-in-ashtray-at-nature-reserve-visitors-centre/

Last year there were swallows above the mens toilets at Ynis Her where you are now. I thought that was a weird one. But the swallow did sit outside on a branch for me to take photos so I did not get arrested for walking into the gents :-)

I saw this Great Tit nesting in the armpit of a rather patient man at Muckross House, Ireland. It didn't seem phased by the many tourists stopping to have their photo taken with him.



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We were on holiday last week at Horning on the River Bure in Norfolk when we went on the large 'steamer/paddle' type cruiser up the river and back (total 90 minute trip). The Comentator on board pointed out how Swallows were greeting our return. They have nested about 18 inches above the water line on the stern of the boat and three times daily their young are taken on the 90 minute cruise! The adults don't follow but wait for the return of the boat. Apparently this is their 11th year with this 'arrangement'!

On a recent visit to the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland we noticed Swallows flying in and out of the underside of the gondolas that hold the narrow boats going up and down in the Wheel obviously going to nests on the girders there. We wondered how they managed to find their nests when they are moved through 108 degrees every 30 minutes but witnessing several skirmishes we concluded they didn't know and maybe just attempted to feed the young in whichever nest was where they had last fed young.

having just watched spring watch on Skomer which we know really well we were there 3 weeks ago



You just need to go into the public toilets on the way down to the boat at Martins Haven where there are two or three swallow nests just above the doors of the Ladies and Gents loo they Fly in and out all the time even when occupied!

We have just returned from a holiday break to Scotland, and whilst we where there, we visited the Falkirk Wheel. Several pairs of Swallows are nesting beneath the structure, which moves from just below ground level, then raises 35 mtrs in the air! The parent birds may well leave the nest at ground level, then return with food to find that their nest has levitated 35 mtrs up & visa vera. I guess they just get used to it?

In the public toilets by the ferry to go to skomer island, there are a few swallows nesting on top of the fuse box, saw them last week but did not take pictures. One of the camera men from skomer should pop back to the mainland to get a few shots, they are oblivious to people.

Dear Martin



I work at Swynnerton Training Area in Staffordshire which is a military training establishment. There are two sets of blue tits nesting in separate metal containers, at the entrances of building, normally used to stub out and receive expended cigarette butts. Both have been marked up by the on-site conservation manager as nest sites requesting that personnel do not disturb the nesting birds. Both nests have young in residence and the adults can be seen visiting regularly.



As an aside I have just spent three days in Grasmere and had the opportunity to show my wife a great tit nest in the trunk of a tree about two feet above ground level adjacent to the River Rothay flowing between Grasmere and Rydal Water.



Thanks for a great programme.



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We have a caravan on Mersea Island and on a recent trip to the Island country show we passed a box where you stub out cigarettes. There was a sign on the box asking people not to use it as Blue tits were nesting. I sneeked a peak and there were 5 little heads looking up at me. We popped back 15 minutes later and were privalidged to watch one of the little ones fledge to a nearby tree with it's parent. A fantastic experience for our 2 daughters and I managed to catch the fledging on camera step by step.

On the river running through Brisbane, Queensland, there are large passenger catamarans that run all day from one end of the city to the other and back again. There are Swallows nesting underneath the hull of the catamarans. It is amazing to see them fly under the speeding boats to feed their chicks. Also there are dozens of identical boats on the river at any one time. How do they know which is their boat?

I have a photo of a nest at the top of a roller at Adventure Island in Southend, Essex. I think it is a crow's nest. I took the photo in May 2011.

We have just returned from the USA. This is obviously not the UK, but concerns a British bird. We repeatedly observed a Starling coming and going from its` nest aboard the Bellvue-Oxford Ferry, plying back and forth across an inlet of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Incidentally, this is the oldest ferry in the USA, so Starlings may have been doing it since their introduction.

I meant to write I have a photo of a crow's nest at the top of a roller coaster at Adventure Island, Southend, Essex. Photo was taken in May 2011.

There is a Collard Dove nesting in a gutter right above the down pipe, next door to my friends house, not quite sure what happened to it last night during all that rain though!! :-(

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Hi



I currently have a pair of Swallows building a nest in my front porch. So far it has taken them about 3 weeks and they have only built about 3 to 4 cm from the wall there is no supporting beams or structure..

In view of the current dry conditions is there anything I can do to help support or protect the nest or should I leave well alone and let them and nature take its course. And what about if we were lucky enough to have any fledglings, would they need something to stand on outside the nest.



Also, being the front porch it is fairly busy with us going in and out and the postman calling e.t.c., this would be another reason I would like to put some support up.



I would very much appreciate your guidance and advice please.



Kind Regards

I know you are only looking for strange nesting sites within the U.K., but have to tell you about the cool one at my daughter's house in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She has an artificial flower wreath hanging on the front door to her house, and while visiting there a few weeks ago, finches built a nest inside the wreath. It looked so pretty, but seemed a bit dangerous, what with the door being opened and closed so many times. Guess the finches figured that out as well, as they never did lay any eggs. I have posted photos on Springwatch's Facebook page.

On a visit to Estonia in 2008 we saw a swallow sitting on a nest built on a pipe just above head height, on the Virtsu-Kuvatsu Ferry, which links the islands of Muhu and Saarema to the mainland, a crossing of aproximately 10 miles, and which is completed about 6 times per day in each direction. We saw no sign of its mate so speculated that maybe they changed shifts each time the ship returned to whichever terminal they called 'home'. (I'd send a photo but can't work out how to do so).

Had a Blackbird nest on an upturned yard brush leaning against a wall.

Mother blackbird created when a fledgling got its neck entwined in a tendril of a nearby clematis. I became her friend when I released it. Photo available on request.

A collared dove made it's nest in our security lamp just outside the bedroom window.

Armpit tit?



Sorry, I'm not even sure why I found this funny, but I nearly just spat my tea all over my screen over this!



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Unfortunately i didnt take a photo =-( BUT i did a search & there has been an article written Please check it out!.gotta be a winner!!!

A crow has amazingly built a nest on the top of the largest loop of the main attraction at Southends Adventure Island-Rage.every time the ride went over the nest it would fly to a lamp post & then fly back...can you imagine how many times it did this during the day.Please take a look,i would post the link ,BUT.... House rules!

THUMBS UP SPING WATCH =-)

There is a pair of Collared Doves nesting on top of traffic lights on a tiny traffic island right in the middle of a very busy junction! I don't think the chicks stand much chance of fledging withough getting hit by a car :-( East Dereham, Norfolk

"CONE SWEET HOME" or "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE CONE" !! ;-)



My father discovered nine eggs in a perfectly circular nest, created by a pair or GREAT TITS, underneath a TRAFFIC CONE in the grounds of Holt Hall in North Norfolk. When he checked the cosy nesting place a couple of weeks later they had all hatched. (Link below to photos on Flickr). The cone was on a grassy area at the side of the busy driveway that leads down to the hall.



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I know it's not a birds nest but we think it's amazing anyway and would like to know if that young Mr Packham can identify it for us please https://www.flickr.com/photos/63751969@N02/

Hi,

I work opposite a Chemical factory and have been watching over the last month two white doves flying in and out of there. I know they have a nest as asked someone who works there. With all the noise and moving of tanks by forklifts I find this is a strange place to decide to nest. So would like to ask why they would nest here?? Will try to get permission to get a photo.

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I work opposite a Chemical factory and have been watching over the last month two white doves flying in and out of there. I know they have a nest as asked someone who works there. With all the noise and moving of tanks by forklifts I find this is a strange place to decide to nest. So would like to ask why they would nest here?? Will try to get permission to get a photo.

Recently we discovered a Great Tits nest made inside the base of a working lamp post. The lamp post was on a busy road. The bird enetered by a crack in the concrete around the inspection plate. The nest and chicks appeared to be in amongst the wires etc inside. We then noticed at the top of the same lampost a blue tit's nest. The nest was in the lamp globe. I took a couple of photographs and they are on the springwatch flickr site.

Recently we discovered a Great Tits nest made inside the base of a working lamp post. The lamp post was on a busy road. The bird entered by a crack in the concrete around the inspection plate. The nest and chicks appeared to be in amongst the wires etc inside. We then noticed at the top of the same lampost a blue tit's nest. The nest was in the lamp globe. I took a couple of photographs and they are on the springwatch flickr site.

Hi, we have a Dove's nest on our T.V arial just outside my bedroom window! It's great as i can see the eggs when their not sitting on the nest and will be able to see them when they have hatched!

This Oyster Catcher's nest was on the ground in the middle of a gravel farmyard area. The area/road is used regularly by tractors and jeeps. The farmyard is also a livery yard so many horses pass through this area on their way to ride. There are dogs.



The nest was originally just on the flat(ish) ground with no protection at all. When the nest was found by it nearly being trodden on by a horse, the owners of the farm put some rocks around it to protect the eggs. This was done while the parent was not there. As far as we know, both eggs successfully hatched and the chicks were raised successfully.



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I am one of the Curator's at the Royal Enigneers Museum in Kent, we have a large number of Armoured Vehicles in the grounds and car park.

This year we noticed a family of Blue Tits had made a nest inside a FV432 Armoured Personnel Carrier and the Bar Mine Layer it is towing. The mine layer has a chute into which the bar mine is placed before it's laid in the ground - it's within this chute the birds set up home and successfully fledged their chicks. The nest is well hidden, and we managed to miss the birds fledge, but it was great fun for us curators to watch the parents coming back and forth with food. For photos of the vehicle and nest site follow our links below -

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There is a blackbird nest on one of the shelves of plants at our local B&Q. Photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/63488244@N03/5778055800/in/pool-bbcspringwatch

A local business in my area had one of their machines put out of business by a family of blue tits. They built a nest in the lifting arm, so it couldn't be used. They said that they would wait until the blue tit chicks had fledged to move the nest - but when they did, the machine in question wasn't needed - so the nest didn't get moved and the Blue Tit parents have laid another clutch of eggs.



Also, a local garden centre has had an entire stack of upturned large plant pots that they can't sell yet. A Robin has built a nest somewhere in the stack, and are raising a family - if you sit and watch, you can see the parents coming in and out of the plant pots.

Blue Tit nest inside a motorway cone.



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There is a pair of blue tits nesting inside a community recycling bin near my home. We first realised what was inside when I popped a piece of cardboard inside and an angry blue tit parent flew out! There is now a sign up on the bin and a replacement next to the occupied bin! :)

Another cigarette box on the wall outside what was my office, this time inhabitted by a family of 8 yes 8 Coal tit chicks all raised and fledged succesfully by both doting parents. (this was last year as the cigarette box has since been removed by the new management)



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Hi all, pictures here of a swallows nest above our side door into the garage. The nest has been built upon a 4 bar power extenstion we put there for an outside freezer! Not the best place for a nest...but they are sweet...



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I work in a secondary school and this morning myself and another member of staff stumbled across a small nest complete with chicks in the school bike sheds. Probably not too unusual, however the nest is only about a metre from the ground and on top off a small post to the rear of the bike shed. I am very concerned as the shed is open and full of pupils during the morning and again at 3.15. It is then locked during the day and at night. My other major concern are of course predators. Cats, foxes and such others could easily reach up and take the chicks. Pupils are aware and are keeping their distance but Ive spet most of the day worrying. I haven't seen the adult birds yet but will hopefullytake pictures when I'm at work next on Thursday. I didn't go too close to the nest but could see four little dark feathered chicks, just brilliant.

We have a wren box and it looks to me,as a nest has been made by a bee or a wasp inside will post it on picture later. Also can you explain this, we have what I think is a wasps nest in an old birds nest covered in ivy, the wasps are going in with nothing, but are coming out with yellow blob shapes.Two days they have been at this.

How can you tell a male heron from a female heron?? XD

The dippers that have previously nested in the banks of the feeder canal by the river in the centre of Cardiff have, this year, chosen to nest in the new, state of the art, fish pass. Will they have made a nest on a ledge? And do you think they knew it would be a dry year and they wouldn't get washed out?

A ring neck dove has nested on top of a set of traffic lights in swanage, dorset.

Strange one here. Got a couple of photos.



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A great tit nested inside a lamppost, not really unusual i suppose, but we could look in sometimes ie, every week, and see them at close range, and all fledged successfully.

a ring neck dove has made a nest on top of traffic lights in swanage ,dorset.

Not a UK strange nest, but on our holiday in Barbados at Easter, we had a local pigeon, who we named Rhianna, who not only nested in the plant pot on our balcony, but proceeded to lay two eggs in front of us one evening!, over the days we watched her partner swap places with her to sit on the eggs, and also made sure we took extra bits from the buffet for her in the evening. We do have a picture of her if you'd like.

Whilst climbing a mobile phone tower as part of my job in Hedge End nr Southampton I dont know who was more surpised, me or the 5 baby kestrel chicks who have nested there. They are 3 weeks old and thriving. I have some photos if you are interested.

We have a blackbird nest in our school courtyard. This is a bit silly of the parent birds as the fleglings fly into the classes and get stuck

Our blackbirds built a nest ontop of some stored (bright red) snow boards!

Me and my Dad found a sparrow nest in the Gents toilets at Ynys Hir last year.

Here's a photo :)



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Natalie and Simon from Aberystwyth

I've sent in some photos of the great tits nest inside the 'raptor post' (a post used for tethering and training birds of prey which is used every day at our bird of prey centre, veryyyy brave!

That was an interesting section about feeding birds and the decline in the brood number for certain species. But I noticed that no one mentioned the thought that perhaps certain species of birds may not feel the need to invest so much energy into reproducing, since food is plentiful and so adults have a better chance of surviving anyway (a bit like if you hold back on watering plants in order to encourage them to flower instead of investing in foliage). Could it be perhaps the time of year in which the birds are fed which is having an effect?

For the last 3 years, there have been a pair of blackbirds nesting under the "heavens" (the canopy overhanging the stage) at Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, London. The first year, their nest kept falling off a beam. Last season, they were hopping about among the cast of Macbeth, indifferent to the horrors taking place around them. Just as the matinee ends with a rowdy jig, they can be heard singing their evening song, perched on a nearby TV aerial. I am a steward at the Globe and as well as enjoying the drama I am amazed by the antics of these birds. What a nest site to choose!

For this passed two years I have been developing a nesting box which would revolve 180 degrees and powered by the wind. The nest box is of Octahedron shape, size 5 inches inside by 7 inches high with the entrance hole being 1 3/8 ",to the bottom of this I have fixed a two inch "Lazy Susan" bearing for rotation and on a stem projecting from the entrance side is a piece of sheet metal to catch the wind.

The whole thing sounds awful to some birders, until they witness the results, I have three on my property and all occupied, The highest one 25 feet, Tree Swallows, next one Eastern Bluebirds, and the latest one Chickadees

I heard yesterday of a robin nesting in a brown wheelie bin, the council have had to send another bin to use. It must have been left open at some point long enough for the robin to nest!

Pictures of 5 kestrels nesting in telecoms mast

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I have put pic on the flickr page of a nest just outside the British Legion club near where we live. It is the box where people have to stub out the cigarettes. Dont know what birds they are but could hear them and its only about two to three inches deep.Blackfield, southampton.

We have a bird's nest in our loft. It is a wonderfully made nest and a couple of weeks ago it was full of cherping little baby sparrows. They have now fledged and all is quiet in our loft. Shall we keep the nest in our loft as will the parent sparrows come back again to their nest and lay eggs in it again in the future? We live near Cobbs Quay/Upton Country Park, in Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset.

In my wood shed here in Peterborough,we've been watching from start to finish balckbirds nesting 1 meter off the ground on a pile of planks, the eggs hatched on 26th May and fledged today 8th June. We have taken some great photos of all the stages.

A pair of Oyster Catchers have made a nest and laid two eggs in the back garden of our Steading near Drummuir in Moray, exactly where we've been building a dry stone wall! We're 15 miles inland from the sea. We've stopped work around the nest but they don't seem to mind when we work nearby in other parts of the garden. Photos are here (I can upload higher resolution versions if you need them):

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Hi I wonder if you can help a friend in Andorra (even though I know Springwatch is dedicated to UK wildlife)? He was away for three weeks and came back to find a pair of kestrels nesting in his tomato plant pot!! 4 eggs he thinks but can't go out on the balcony incase he scares them. He wants to know how long before they fledge, from hatching and is it safe to disturb the babies when the parents are out hunting, as he wants to set up a kestrelcam. Due to location he assumes this won't qualify for the competition?

@HelenandAlan - ha ha I think I entered the Globe blackbirds last year. Just impossible to get a picture though. And how on earth do the youngsters manage to fledge from that height?

We have a bird box in our shed with an entry hole for the birds on the outside. On the back of the box(inside the shed) is a sliding door so we can peek inside! We had great tits last year and blue tits the year before, but imagine our surprise when 'peeking' this year only to find a wasp nest!! Photo hopefully being loaded on flicker (new to all this) - fantastic programme by the way!

sorry! here is the wasp / blue tit nest

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I have a mistle thrush/song thrush cant decide which,nesting in one of my wall planters ,so far she has laid four eggs,should i take the plant out to give it more room?

A robin made its nest inside our electricity metre box.

I have a thrush Mistle/Song cant decide which nesting in one of my wall planters,she has laid four eggs,should i remove the plant to give it more room,or leave well alone?

Weve been mending a tractor in a busy farmyard shed. In the shed we have two sets of swallows nesting,up in the roof rafters-one set come back every year. One nest with ringneck doves. For the first time we have got robins too this year! He's nested in our toolboxes at the back of the shed, only about 1.5m high off the ground. One set of chicks have fledged from that nest and then the robins made a 2nd nest inside our tractor. We have still been working on it - carefully - and they're not worried in the slightest, they just keeping bringing the little chicks plenty of food. Another few days and they will be ready to fledge. We feel so priviledged!

My eleven year old son, found a great tits nest in a roll of roofing felt, the pair hatched six young, early on and are looking like they are setting up for a second lot, should we move the nest or just let them be as we are concerned about cats?

Great show....

how about a nest of storks on top of a really busy railway in rotterdam ?



at https://www.vakantiepix.nl/index.php?topic=711.0 you can find a link to some pictures.

No photo or video, I'm afraid, but 24 years ago, there was a collared dove which nested in Hythe, Kent, on the gantry of a covered car wash. Every time the machine was used, the nest, complete with parent and eggs/young, moved over the car being washed, then back again, and got soaked in the process! But they didn't seem to mind.

Regards

Here is my unusual nest video. A blue tit nesting in a vase outside.



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Spotted this Dove nesting on a traffic light while waiting for lights to change while driving,Sorry about quality has I had to use camera phone in a spur of a moment.

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Spotted these blue tits two years ago nesting in a life belt at a local pool and here they are again this year .. the young are very noisy, :)



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why are your site so hard to get on to i have been trying for 4 shows to enter at the owl nest site the sound is made by a bager

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the game keeper

This spring we've had robins nesting in an old Ford Galaxy bumper propped up outside our back door! The robins didn't seem bothered about our comings and goings and spent quite a lot of time chasing other birds away from the food supply we put out. The baby robins have now fledged and the nest is empty.



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Is this unusual we have a nest in our bird box which is full of what looks like bumble bees. There are loads of them, been there about 4-5 weeks it looks like bits of moss coming out the sides and then a real squeeze for them getting in and out. What do I do with them? will they eventually leave and will there be any honey?? Rebecca Aged 11

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We have a wrens who have made their nest in last years Paper Wasp nest hanging in the shed!! - the wasps returned to make another new nest alongside and the wrens have pecked it apart - they have filled the old wasps nest with moss and feathers and are sitting on eggs

Earlier in the year, a large bee with a red rear began living under our deck right outside the kitchen door. The bee was busy going in and out for a few weeks. Not seen her/him since but we now see smaller ones coming and going. Have always seen this type of bee as it feeds on the flowers of a large forest flame bush in the garden.

My question, is there going to be a swarm at some point and what do we need to do to prepare?

Thankyou

Strange place for wren's nest

This Robin has built a little nest in my husband's Timberland boot in our garage. We first noticed it just over 2 weeks ago - a perfect round nest and 5 little eggs. On Sunday we noticed that one had hatched! The Robin is still sitting on the nest so we cant be sure as yet if the rest have hatched.



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This nest was actually in a planter about 3 feet from our dining room window! managed to open window and catch this image, best angle I could get through window and so difficult to see Nestling's. Our 7 and 3 year old sons Rourke and Lochlann's eyes were popping out watching them. Rourke had us on cat watch and even made a fake snake to scare of the local cats.



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