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It's Autumn in the Southern hemisphere (Spring time in the Northern hemisphere), and I get fascinated by a lamp post near me that some birds have been using as a hand-me-down for a decade now.

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[–] BlackRing@midwest.social 18 points 6 months ago

On the anti-bird spikes. In the one small place I put them so that a nest wouldn't be right at my door and mama bird would try to attack my toddler. Seriously, no spikes a few feet away, you'll be fine. Nope. I know it's instinct or something to nest in a certain place each time, but come on.

[–] Japultra@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

On my runner rug on my balcony. Some pigeons found a couple twigs, laid them on the ground, then lay two eggs. Those chicks were born there and stayed until they were able to one day fly away.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

I wish there was a shitty bird nests community on the fediverse you could crosspost that too. Talk about low effort.

[–] BruceLee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

That a habit of them! But seriously your baby pigeons are much cutter than mine were.

[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 15 points 6 months ago

A couple of seagulls made their nest in the cooling vent for the radiator of one of our backup generators. I caught it on our security cameras and mentioned it to management which resulted in folks being dispatched to evict them and clean up the giant pile of sticks and other junk they had dragged in.

Not sure what would have happened next time the thing started, so it was probably for the best. I still felt bad.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One of my coworkers left his car parked in his driveway for so long that a pigeon made a nest between the windshield and the windshield wiper, just right in that little space where it comes together with the hood.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not peculiar but it was fun watching them failing to build their nest at the top of the tree in front of my balcony. The wind blew everything down immediately, it was like a slapstick film. They tried for a week but never managed to fix more than a few sticks and those are gone by now too. Hope they found a better spot.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Must be a competitive market

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

The weather was probably much nicer when they chose this spot. You could see them arguing over it. I wish I had it on video.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In an empty wasps nest hanging from a house. I even saw momma bird come feed the kids. It was really cute.

Around here we seem to be lucky with our wasps. We get a new nest every year but they never bother anyone. One year they were in the ceiling right above the entrance of an old barn we use for storage. Was fascinating and eerie hearing them crawl around and work.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

We've been lucky with ours as well. We unfortunately have some sort of infestation in our house but at least they don't sting us.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 months ago

Where the gutter downspout meets the side of the house. Was worried for weeks until the babies started fluttering on their own.

[–] BruceLee@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

On my balcony. We had enough problems with how unsanitary pigeon make their nest so we planned on not letting another one being build this year. We took out every pot, every object we had and break every morning the little stack of twigs they would make on the corner of the balcony only to waking one morning and to find out an egg was laid next to one single twig!!

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Long time ago I saw a pigeon build a nest on a window sill, a place where there was nothing to anchor it to. They even laid two eggs before a storm hit and blew the whole thing away. :( Tho it was a pigeon nest and they are famously bad at building...

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

A buddy had this 1 pigeon attempt to build a nest on his balcony every year for the 4 years he lived there, right where the water would pool, he named the pigeon Fish. Nest never looked like a nest

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

A narrow windowsill on my front porch.

Was kinda neat watching the little baby robins, though.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

At our old house, we had pigeons make a nest in a little space just under the roof, next my bedroom. Sometimes when I was trying to take a nap during the day I'd hear pigeons cooing and hear their chicks!

Got a Mallard that made hers right next to a rock in my back yard. Just on the ground.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

My school had a horn speaker thing and a bird made a nest on top of it. I remember the school stopped using that horn until the nest was empty.

Don’t know if it’s weird but I saw a cute pigeon trying to make a nest on the Metrolink Ticket Machines.

The thing is the machine is kinda not against a wall and a little slanted , so when I got to the platform there were twigs all over the floor and a poor nest on top. I tried to do a solid and put some twigs on the box to help.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We have a woodpecker that ia currently in the process of digging out a little cave in our neighbors wall.

I'm in Europe so this is a stone wall, maybe with some insulation. It sounds a lot like it's hammering stone though.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Brick is fairly brittle, though.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

True, otherwise I don't think it would keep trying to dig there. It's been going for about a week now