We had our (usually) annual Spring Clean of the shed today - we take everything out, give it a good clean (it's a brick building, fairly good sized, very popular with spiders, etc), decide what can go to the tip and what stays, and then put everything back. In one corner, near the roof, we found this lovely little nest - I should have put something in for scale, as it's very small - the eggs (which sadly, were unhatched, were very old - probably even last year's (we didn't clean the shed last spring, as it happens)) were about the size of Cadbury's mini eggs - the candy coated ones. About an inch long, for those who don't speak Cadbury's. We think it's probably a blue tit nest, as it's one of our smallest birds - wrens are smaller, but they have a different nest type.
2 comments:
Be thankful that you locked the bird OUT rather than IN. You might have found a dead bird, rather than just the nest.
Actually, I think the bird was getting in at one (or more) of the small gaps between the corrugated roof and the top of the bricks - so I don't think there was a chance of trapping the bird - luckily!
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