Bird potentially building a nest on our door window bird feeder, what do we do?
Hi, so we live in an apartment (building isn’t tall, average uk build) and have a special bird feeder attached to the window of our balcony door, we get a lot of blue tits, great tits etc and they get the best quality premium food so it’s very busy. This morning when my mom went to refill the feeder we noticed that our local house/tree sparrow has what we assume been building a nest inside the actual feeder cage, We are obviously delighted but worried incase she actually does use it to have her babies. What would you do in this situation? We’re more than happy to accommodate her but with it being a door that & with it being on a bird feeder we would be worried of the safety of her & her future eggs. Thanks
We are so confused on what to do, as much as we don’t mind her nesting there, it’s not the best place to be nesting. The bird feeder is in a cage, it’s square with 2 dispensers on either side (the nest is right inbetween them) it’s attached to a window/door of a balcony as we live in an apartment. We also get very noisy starlings every day and unfortunately that door is something that gets opened a lot
My mom was thinking of buying a house nesting box in hopes she’d swap homes. Is this a good idea? Thanks
I imagine that going about your normal daily business and having other birds visiting the feeder will be enough to put the sparrow off pursuing a nest there! Have you got a picture of your feeder!
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The feeder was custom built specifically for smaller birds as the starlings would scare them all off when we had an ordinary feeder. The starlings still get fed separately
Thanks for posting. I don't think it'll progress very far! Even if eggs are laid and hatch, I can't see young birds surviving to fledging from there!
Looks as if any youngsters would easily fall through ... offering a proper nestbox might be the best idea!