Birds nest at work - what to do?
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
[QUOTE 4264762, member: 9609"]we had a woodpigeon nesting in a tree in the garden last summer, it kept laying eggs then a few days later they would be lying on the ground under the nest, this happened two or three times (it wasn't a very good and they kept rolling out) anyway, sometime later I spotted a young one ready to fledge so it managed in the end. I think they breed about 9 months of the year, that probably explains why there is so many of them.[/QUOTE]
Yes I've seen some appalling wood pigeons nests..... I'm always amazed they manage to produce any off Spring!
Yes I've seen some appalling wood pigeons nests..... I'm always amazed they manage to produce any off Spring!
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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- Scotland
jefmcg
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Dayvo
just passin' through
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- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
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Different recipes obviously.....
Amanda P
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- York. Well, York-ish...
Pigeons of all varieties do make rubbish nests, as a rule, some particularly rubbish. But what they lack in architectural or engineering acumen, they make up for with sheer bloody persistence - they'll keep on and on trying, often right into the winter. Stock doves and feral pigeons, though, usually find some solid ledge or cavity to build in; woodpigeons just fling a few sticks any old where and hope for the best.
Besides being structurally poor, the nests are often very obvious as well, and while nests like Andy RM's might be inaccessible for mammalian predators, they're no problem for crows, magpies etc. It was just a matter of time really, before an egg fell out or a corvid got them.
(I'm a chartered wildlife biologist and as it happens I'm currently working in the field on a big nest-monitoring study).
Besides being structurally poor, the nests are often very obvious as well, and while nests like Andy RM's might be inaccessible for mammalian predators, they're no problem for crows, magpies etc. It was just a matter of time really, before an egg fell out or a corvid got them.
(I'm a chartered wildlife biologist and as it happens I'm currently working in the field on a big nest-monitoring study).
jefmcg
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Today you earned your avatar. Totally something the dude would say.
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AndyRM
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Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
Pigeon moved, egg fell through a gap maybe.
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AndyRM
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- North Shields
Entirely possible. I didn't see enough of the egg to judge size.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
I wonder if pigeonkind has it's own "Darwin awards"... This one is a top contender, if so.
raleighnut
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I dunno, the one that attempted to fly through my front wheel (and failed) deserved to win (posthumously)
Dayvo
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