STRANGE NESTING PLACES

IT COULD BE A BIT PRICKLY GETTING IN AND OUT

OF THIS NEST

GOLDA GLEASON FOUND THIS CONGLOMERATION IN HER

GAS BARBECUE. SHE HAD SEEN SOME BIRDS FLY INTO THE

SIDE OF IT ONE SPRING DAY. THIS IS WHAT SHE FOUND

WHEN SHE OPENED IT UP. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW LONG

IT TOOK THESE BIRDS TO BUILD THIS NEST?

A LADY IN ST. GEORGE FOUND THIS LITTLE NEST ON HER

WREATH NEXT TO HER DOOR IN A PROTECTED ALCOVE.

NEST INSIDE OLD SHOES.

A MOTHER THRUSH LAID FIVE EGGS IN THE ENGINE OF A HIRED

MINIBUS AT CLARO BARRACKS, CATTERICK GARRISON,

NORTH YORKSHIRE. THE ARMY HAD BEEN RENTING THE VEHICLE

FOR 30 POUNDS A DAY AND HAD TO WAIT FOR THE BIRDS TO

FLY THE COOP BEFORE THEY COULD RETURN IT.

A PAIR OF BLUE TITS WERE AIMING HIGH WHEN THEY

DECIDED TO NEST IN A JET AT RAF MARHAM.

THEIR NEST IS TUCKED AWAY UNDER THE TAIL OF THE

VICTOR GATE GUARDIAN WHICH HAS SEEN A LOT OF

COMING AND GOING IN RECENT DAYS. THE BIRDS ARE IN

NO DANGER OF LOSING THEIR HOME THOUGH, AS THE

VICTOR IS NOW ONLY A STATIC PLANE WHICH STANDS

NEAR THE BASE'S MAIN GATE.

A STRANGE PLACE FOR A BIRDS' NEST INSIDE A SMALL

RESTAURANT IN VASSILIKI, GREECE.

SHE WASN'T LOOKING FOR FIVE-STAR LUXURY,

BUT A LITTLE PRIVACY MIGHT HAVE BEEN NICE.

INSTEAD, ROSIE SHAPTER HAD TO SHARE HER TRAVELODGE

ROOM WITH A NESTING PIGEON. MRS.SHAPTER, 60,

OPENED THE DOOR TO FIND THE BIRD FLYING AROUND INSIDE.

SHE SHOOED ITOUT THE WINDOW BUT THEN COULDN'T GET TO

SLEEP BECAUSE IT COOED CONTINUALLY ON THE WINDOW

LEDGE. THE FOLLOWING MORNING SHE DISCOVERED WHY...

IT HAD BEEN CHASED FROM ITS NEST, CONTAINING A SINGLE EGG,

UNDERNEATH HER DOUBLE BED.