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You need a rag and look who’s taken up residence, Video.

Love it Andy, what bird is it as it's hard to tell from the photo?

I have a set of extension ladders hung high on a wall under a carport and there's a resident robin dive bombs me at the minute. I had to borrow ladders last week as they're clearly nesting somewhere on top.

it's the nesting pigeons that irritate me as the appear to love leaving huge deposits on a black car. I'd consider getting the air rifle out but can't afford the divorce that would follow. :rolleyes: Oh and the magpies that kill the small bird chicks.
 
Perfect soft safe nesting spot for an opportunistic bird, you’ll just have to give up your worst T shirt if you need a rag till they’ve grown a bit.
Gill’s idea of using a buttoned cuff and sleeve from an old shirt stuffed full of rags and hung up in readiness has worked well for me, no birds in it yet lol.
 
I had been waiting weeks for the weather to break so I could sort out two of my sheds, it has been wet at some point most days and I did not want to empty a shed for it to then rain again and put it all back. So a good day arrived and I had it all planed, until I went to my small empty garden storage shed next to the log store. In this is a Propane cylinder and a blackbird has made a womderful nest in the top of it with five young in it so out of use for a few weeks until they fledge. Will take a picture of the nest at that point as I don't want to disturb her at the moment.
 
I’d normally leave the car windows open when they are in the garage; I dare not now. The part of the garage the nest in is not separated from where the cars are parked. If the fledgelings leave calling cards I’ll not be happy.
 
We’ve had robins nesting in our shed, they’ve fledged now. The aftermath was inpressive! The shed stank in the heat today. Luckily I recently moved the families bikes into the garage with my proper bike. My Dutch bike was covered when I got it out to go to the supermarket this evening. Birds were cute though.
 

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MattS said:
We’ve had robins nesting in our shed, they’ve fledged now. The aftermath was inpressive! The shed stank in the heat today. Luckily I recently moved the families bikes into the garage with my proper bike. My Dutch bike was covered when I got it out to go to the supermarket this evening. Birds were cute though.
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Thanks for that Matt, the nest is in an area where our are bikes are kept. I’ll throw a dust sheet over them all later.
 
We too have several Robins. I thought they were territorial but we must have about 5 co-existing in the garden. As we have had trees cut up, there are lots of woodlice and other insects around, so whilst I am shifting wood the robins follow us around eating anything that moves. Yesterday I opened the hot composter and there were a lot of maggots on the rim (not unusual). Robin siezed the opportunity and gobbled them up whilst I had to stand there holding the lid open :) No idea where the nest is. There are moorhens still nesting - very secretive. Collared doves are quite nice. wrens have nested in the giant (not yet but will be) bamboo. There are lots and lots of housemartins that make a considerable racket and a pair each of green and spotted woodpeckers. Their nests are quite close to each other.

Not seen a single swallow over us this year yet, which is sad. Nor have I heard a cuckoo or seen the owls that hang about in the corner of the garden usually.
 
AJB Temple said:
We too have several Robins. I thought they were territorial but we must have about 5 co-existing in the garden. As we have had trees cut up, there are lots of woodlice and other insects around, so whilst I am shifting wood the robins follow us around eating anything that moves. Yesterday I opened the hot composter and there were a lot of maggots on the rim (not unusual). Robin siezed the opportunity and gobbled them up whilst I had to stand there holding the lid open :) No idea where the nest is. There are moorhens still nesting - very secretive. Collared doves are quite nice. wrens have nested in the giant (not yet but will be) bamboo. There are lots and lots of housemartins that make a considerable racket and a pair each of green and spotted woodpeckers. Their nests are quite close to each other.

Not seen a single swallow over us this year yet, which is sad. Nor have I heard a cuckoo or seen the owls that hang about in the corner of the garden usually.
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That’s quite a menagerie Adrian, those Robins are certainly tame!
 
When I had an allotment there was a robin who saw would watch me dig, darting in to collect any bugs disturbed.
One year it appeared with a young one to show it how to take advantage of digging for food.
 
Sad day. Mrs AJBT found the head of a blackbird. Cat patrol is possibly the culprit. We have two tiger striped / leopard spotted cats who have a regular patrol, plus an old fox. Squirrels are lively and we have given up trapping them.
 
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Well done for rescuing him, is there a nest somewhere just above? Could have been his first flight.
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Yes there is Ian and it's occupied though I don't know which birds. It was tiny, maybe 40 or 50mm from feet to top of head when he stretched up. The bucket was accidentally left and collected rainwater, I usually turn them upside down.
There are nesting bluetits, great tits, longtailed tits around the place as well as all the other species and we've got goldfinches and bullfinches somewhere in the hedges. I spend half my life at this time of year trying to discourage the murderous magpies from killing the fledgelings.
 
This little guy used to follow me around, he even started looking through the house windows when he wanted food.

 
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