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I've already spoken to few folks who have doves nesting on their balconies and a lady today (18.02.10) in Chichester who found a robin siting on eggs in her minibus engine :-s
Robins are famous for nesting in all kinds of unlikely locations, including sheds, kettles, boots, hanging baskets, coat pockets even on boats in daily use!? Has anybody else heard of unusual or early nest sites?
Not this year but I once saw a Robin nest, with family, on a working tractor and once in a rusty old bean can that formed part of a fly tip spot.
For viewing or photography right place right time is everything. I'd rather be in the right place with poor kit than have the best kit and be in the wrong place.
Last year whilst holidaying in the Forest of Dean, I saw a rather unusual Blue tits nest, in an ashtray on the wall next to the campsite shop door, they had a notice on it, not to be used as the Bue tits were nesting there, it was a very busy shop people constantly backwards and forwards past the ashtray it didn't seem to bother the Blue tits.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
We used to have a Wren nest in a hanging basket every year at our old house, used to sort of burrow into the moss. Raised some successful broods from there :o)
I saw a great tit nesting in a hole in the roots of a tree in the middle of the hairpin loop of Brands Hatch racing circuit a few years ago. Do tits usually nest so low down??
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Not this year, but last year a wren was nesting in a flower trough on the wall of the local pub, just kept going in and out and never bothered about the customers
Of all creatures, man is the most detestable, he is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~ Mark Twain