We have not reached Alfred Hitchcock proportions yet, but this place is going to the birds!
Photos taken with my Samsung Luna Pro cell phone Those are turds, not eggs
The little robin who lived over the chicken pen is gone. We have a bunch of starlings and magpies around here, I think they are as much to blame as me and my chickens but it is still sad. She was very young looking, I think maybe she did not attract a mate in time? Whatever happened, it is absolutely amazing to see her little nest. The inside is so smooth, it is like pottery. The outside is rough and pokey sticks, but this home is quality craftsmanship on the interior!
The sparrows picked a better location.
There is a little pocket where the plastic had started to come down right near the window in the dome. There are at least two babies in there making a ruckus, but I cannot see inside that little nest at all. The momma bird gets all paranoid when I am working in the yard, she will sit on the outside of the window until I turn my back and then she will duck inside... as if I did not know there was a nest in there lol!
When you get drunk and build a nest?
I am not 100% sure who did this. They started to put a nest here a week or so ago and I pulled it down before they had more than a couple twigs up there. I TOLD them then "This is a TERRIBLE spot for a nest! Not only will I be in and out that door all the time, but when the wind comes a-howling it is going to blow right off there." They ignored my warning and when I left town for ONE DAY they built it right back in the same spot. I guess we shall see how this turns out. I think it was a little pair of wrens I saw working on it, but I thought wrens were much tidier nest makers than this. I will try to get a closer look when they begin dive-bombing me for using my own door...
