AI6YR BenUhhh... remind me to not leave out any project boxes in my yard. I wonder what kind of bird moved in?! (Radio Shack project box intended to house a pole mounted Radio project). #nest
Muro deGrizecoWas the box for a Birdtastic or Birdcore node?
Emily Velasco@ai6yr or you could leave more boxes outside and have even more birds singing their pleasant songs for you
@MLE_online I'm wondering if this is the hummingbird's lair. It's about hummingbird sized.
@ai6yr those twigs look kind of large for a hummingbird to carry, at least to me
@MLE_online Ah, yes, that is true.
JL Johnson 
@MLE_online @ai6yr AFAIK, hummingbirds aren’t cavity nesters. Ours aren’t at least
@MLE_online @ai6yr I’m getting equal parts jealous and bummed that the only thing I can get to nest in our yard are stupid house sparrows. And trapping doesn’t seem to put a dent in the population. Ugh
Steve@MLE_online @User47 @ai6yr yeah, the ones I’ve seen were atop branches, and about the size of half a walnut shell
Apparently they harvest spider webs to stick their nests together
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Climate Jenny 2.1@ai6yr If you were on the east coast, I’d say it’s a wren.
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I had a little bird that was determined to build her nest in one of my MC saddle bags. At first, I thought it was wind blowing grass into it, cause I kept pulling the grass out. (I was LITERALLY riding every day.)
Then we had a few days of rain so I moved the bike under the awning. When I went to go back to work, a few days later, I opened the bag and there was a nest with EGGS.
I got a small box for the nest, cut a small hole for the mother, folded it shut and put the whole thing next to where the bike was parked. When the babies were still alive, 3 days later, I moved the box off the ground, to keep them dry.
I had a little bird that was determined to build her nest in one of my MC saddle bags. At first, I thought it was wind blowing grass into it, cause I kept pulling the grass out. (I was LITERALLY riding every day.)
Then we had a few days of rain so I moved the bike under the awning. When I went to go back to work, a few days later, I opened the bag and there was a nest with EGGS.
I got a small box for the nest, cut a small hole for the mother, folded it shut and put the whole thing next to where the bike was parked. When the babies were still alive, 3 days later, I moved the box off the ground, to keep them dry.
@ai6yr do you have wrens? Because that’s classic wren
Cavedale Rhônes@ai6yr Agree with others. A Bewicks Wren or a House Wren would be my guess. They like small cavities. One nested in a pocket of my tool belt last year
peachfrontanother one who came to say wren & then saw everyone else already said wren...
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Steeleye span Hunting the Wren
U.S. Elaine@ai6yr
Beautifully engineered. Hard to tell how big it is, but if this had additional covering, maybe a Pacific wren? Troglodytes pacificus? The genus name means cavity dweller.
Beautifully engineered. Hard to tell how big it is, but if this had additional covering, maybe a Pacific wren? Troglodytes pacificus? The genus name means cavity dweller.
Mike Ely@ai6yr classic. Some sparrows built one in my daughter's bicycle helmet one year. Perfectly safe!
@ai6yr found the photo. They nested _under_ the helmet. We left it alone until they fledged. So many mites though...
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TransitBiker@ai6yr mourning dove? They tend to make messy “nests”.
@TransitBiker Too small... there are two mourning doves living in the yard here, though, no idea where they are nesting!
@ai6yr they are the worst nest builders. I’m legitimately surprised they’re not wiping themselves out from shoddy nests & cracked eggs/fallen chicks.
@TransitBiker Mourning doves were handed very few brain cells in life, I am convinced. Quail, also.
Coles Street Pothole@ai6yr @TransitBiker Thinking about it, is that really that bad?
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr yeah it is. Their nests are often comprised mostly of just random piles of sticks. The nests don’t do very well unless they are up in a dense coniferous bush where the nest has more support and predators can’t really get to it.
@TransitBiker Sorry, I meant the having very few brain cells bit. I think it would make life a bit easier to bear right now.
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