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This year I had a Robin nesting in my greenhouse. Some small flower pots laying on their side in seed boxes at the end of the green house stacked four high. Robin chose the bottom one. The box's were in direct sunlight and the temperature started to go very high. When she was off the nest I managed soak the floor and surrounding area with water. This was apparently successful as she managed to raise all eggs,
Hi Ronshep
What a great day for lovely stories on here. Well done you, I wonder if she will try and nest there again next year or perhaps pick somewhere with shade?
Regards
Kerry
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A lovely story with a happy ending.
I put up a Robin nest box in the center of 8 confers but unfortunaetly nothing has used it this year, I will have to keep fingers crossed next year might be the year.
Christine
This reminds me of somthing that happen in our garden a few years ago... i have two sheds and in the one around the back i keep all my plant pots and greenhouse trays... a few years ago i was doing some repotting work in my green house and needed some more pots so going into the old shed i put my hand around the door frame and picked off a row of 3inch pots from the shelf, i then managed to walk to my greenhouse carrying theses pots with a robin lookin up at me needless to say when i noticed it a replaced the pots and left well alone untill the young had flown weeks later when i want into the shed again and noticed a blackbird sitting on a nest full of eggs...
since then we have had wren x 2, Robin x1 and two familys of Blackbirds in there.... i have renamed the shed the
MATERNITY WARD...
dont just look enjoy and leave for others to share after you. we dont own the earth we just rent a small part of it....
wow you are so lucky, I would love to have nest in my potting shed. still I have been in this house less then a year, this will be the first breeding year since I moved in, so I'm hoping. :-)
Hey farmer, farmer, put away the D.D.T now. Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!
LOL Kestrel - let's hope the maternity ward is busy again this year!
Cheers, Linda.
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