I can not believe this!

I had blue tits nesting in a bird box in my garden,me being me,did not want to disturb them,so have stayed away from their nesting site,..

Anyway they have flown the nest,...so I thought great,I can get on with painting the decking,weeding,allowing the window cleaner to clean the window,poor bloke,wasn't aloud to disturb my birds,

Guess what,I now have blackbirds nesting,..oh well,they come first,..I also had robins nesting in my ivy last year,but no sign of them this year.

Everything is overgrown here,plenty of places to hide,I love my wildlife!.

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Pauline, By coincidence, l have small robins nesting in the weirdest place.
On the outside wall of my house is an overflow pipe coming from the central heating boiler.
It froze up the other year and l had no heating. My son in law, put insulating fibreglass stuff around the pipe and a black plastic bag over the top of it, to keep it dry.
I thought l could hear whistling nearby the other day but thought nothing of it. It was my friend who was here yesterday, that noticed two robins flying backwards and forwards to the pipe.
On investigation, there is green moss and twigs at the top of the pipe with a small hole in it.

Well, l do hope it is robins and not rats!

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I have been waiting patiently for the robins to vacate the pyracanth so I can trim it only to be told by a neighbour they haven't nested there this year ....

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Art,sounds like robins,..I have no idea what rats use for nesting material,
Last year,I had robins nesting in the thick ivy,..it has taken my fence over,..

The blackbirds have nested in a very dense creeper growing up my wall,I was only cutting the dead flowers from it yesterday,I never noticed any nest,it was only by chance,that I saw the mother fly in there,this morning,..so I investigated,sure enough,there was the nest,extremely well camouflaged,..

I am so glad I saw her,because i would have just carried on with cutting the dead flowers off!...

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