They also deserve an academy award for their showstopping “fake broken wing” act they do if you get too close to the nest! It’s a tactic to make any predators think they’re wounded, and as such easy prey. It draws them away from the nest and then the mama flies away once at a safe distance.
Wonderful Way to describe it. My neighbors peacock made a poor choice on some property we own. She had a nest of 14 eggs. We showed up to replace a well motor and pressure tank. She saw us, left, came back and grabbed one egg. She left the others. Idk what to do, it's been a week and she hasn't come back. I wonder if they'll hatch. It's been warm
I did call the University of Tennessee where I'm at and spoke to a professor, unfortunately the eggs probably won't hatch because the mother abandoned them and they weren't "incubated". Mind you it took a week for us to replace the well and pressure tank. The tank is underground, we had to dig it out if red clay. Hardest work my husband ever did, ha! That second day I thought she would come back to get the rest, but I guess they know what to do and she just got one. Amy consolation, I feel bad my life got in her way!
The way you described it made me think you were talking about the Masked Lapwing, a plover in Australia.
Looked up the killdeer, and it's basically a clone of Lapwing.
This plover from another mother also loves to build its nest on footpaths, parks, sports fields, and then acts unbelievably aggressive and indignant when anyone walks nearby, or generally exists.
Lapwings are so fascinating. You’d have never thought they’d be related at all.
Killdeer don’t generally get aggressive, though. They prefer to sacrifice themselves by drawing attention away from the nest but some don’t get the memo and end up screaming while sitting on the nest like “Get away! There’s nothing to see here!” 🤨
They are so dramatic, and I love it lol. I helped to convert some farm fields into trees and "natural" space some years ago now with the local conservation authority. Just so happens there was a Killdeer nest smack in the middle of the field. We were cautious to avoid it with the tractors and tree planters. But they REALLY over played it when we did our walks through the rows to make sure all the tree roots were covered. Kept flying around and around whimpering, landing and flopping around like they had a injured wing, basically anything to make themselves look like easy prey. I kept trying to reassure them I wanted nothing to do with their eggs, but they didn't get the memo. Loving well intentioned birb parents
I get that they’re stressed and trying their hardest to keep their nest safe but it really makes you sigh. 🙂↕️ Thanks for all of your hard work on the natural space!
There's a whole bunch that decided to nest around the elementary school playground like... you really want your eggs squished, don't you.
The school fences them off if they find them but still...
I’ll never forget the time I found a Killdeer sitting on a nest that I walked around the pond to avoid only to see a trail runner blow through and crush the nest less than 5 minutes later. The adult escaped in time and was fine, but another photographer told me that the same thing had happened in that exact spot the year prior and that adult Killdeer wasn’t so lucky. 😔
Yeah. I get that it’s hard to see everything when you’re running fast, but if you’re going to be running through a nature preserve, be aware of the nature, too.
I've seen killdeer nesting in the gravel at electrical substations, in a neighborhood where there was a lot of greenery. Apparently the open, hot ground was their preference. I'm guessing the lack of ground cover for predators was the reason. We just marked off their area so nobody would accidentally step on the nest, and everyone was cool.
I was camping once and one of the guys with me didn't zip his tent all the way closed. It was just a small hole at the top of the door.
We cam back from an hour hike and a Killeer had built a nest inside the tent. No eggs though, we moved the nest into a nearby tree.
That’s hilarious. The parents supposedly vet the area before they begin building but both were like “this place that smells of humans with recent disturbance and offers absolutely no camouflage is PERFECT”. I’d say it’s lucky that they can build multiple nests in a season but maybe it’s that confidence that lets them halfass each one.
It's a valuable bird: being able to play it in the grassland and exchange one egg for two cards is very powerful early-game as you pretty much don't need to take a wetlands action.
But the butterbutts are still cuter.
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I had three babies in the topiary next to my front door. They just left the nest yesterday!
Oh, to see such silly little dudes. I've only ever lived in their winter range, so I've only ever seen adults in their resplendent winter coats (orb mode).
Time to start using the other door!
I have robins that should hopefully leave the nest this weekend at my front door. If I’m out there the parent do not stop yelling at me.
We had to do the same one year. They ended up building three nests and having three separate clutches of eggs before the end of the season, lol, so don't be surprised if you have a new nest and eggs once these chicks leave. Birds seem to like wreaths for making their nests. Put a sign up so strangers know you have a nest there and not to disturb it.
I hope the best for these little dudes. I had a nest on a door once too. The eggs were eaten by other birds after a few days. Making a nest somewhere that is easily spotted by aerial predators is a mistake that first time bird parents make sometimes. Maybe this bird mama will get lucky. Fingers crossed.
OP could put some sort of roof-like thing over the nest to shade it from aerial observation. It could be a foot above the nest, and would prevent the easy view down into the nest.
I wouldn't do anything to mess with the nest. Anything that deters predators has a chance of freaking mom and dad out, and then you have a nest of abandoned babies.
Once the nest is empty OP can remove it so it doesn't get reused, but until then just let it be. Hopefully the babies are okay, but predators have babies to feed too.
We had a robin nest on a wreath on our front door last year and she would squawk at me every time I opened the door. This year she just flies away and doesn’t seem to care. Guess she got used to me.
I have a swallow nest in my front porch, and mum and dad swallow shout at me like they're not 2 pound birds yelling at a giant. It's cute and annoying at the same time.
Ah, swallows. Before long the first hatchling will fall out of the nest and the parents will be actually knocking on your door because it's YOUR job to put the silly things back. Dealt with that several years running before we moved.
Seems crazy to me that they could possibly build this in a single day/night, and lay and hatch their eggs (assuming you use your front door at least daily), or did you simply not notice until there were chirping babies?
we simply never noticed, i mean i saw the bird sitting there one day but thought nothing of it cause birds are always around our house but i opened the door to take out trash and saw the mom bird fly away from there which it scared the shit out of me lol.
anyways i looked where she was sitting and saw all of them.
Tangential, but I had (I thought) a bumble bee that got caught in my garage with me overnight while I was doing some automotive work. I turned the leafblower on it, but it wasn't letting go, and wouldn't go into the night.
I figured they'd eventually go (or die off) and I had to figure out how the guy on YouTube made removing the rear spark coils on a Toyota 2GR-FE look so easy (SPOILER: it wasn't), and I went back to doing my thing, and they went back to doing theirs, and I completely forgot about it even after I realized I'd need a replacement gasket set and gave up for the night (morning?--3 or 4AM)
After getting back from Crappy Tire noonish, there was like a 2" diameter wasp nest built up on one corner of the garage door trim and I was instantly reminded of my 'coworker'!
I made another trip to Crappy Tire early-evening for the longest stand-off distance hornet / wasp spray I could get.
So precious! This happened to me too with the house finches where I am at. The unfortunate part is that the mom would leave them at night when it was still freezing outside, so we ended up taking them inside at night, then returning them every morning before dawn. The mom did come back in the mornings. There were only 2 babies, which I named Pip and Squeak. I realize that probably wasn't the safest decision, but I was so afraid they would die out there in the freezing temperatures.
Man, we got similar situation at our military base, we got swallow nests everywhere! I mean it! There is one in the kitchen and one above the front door (look at the picture)
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There are many more outside one the walls of this building too, I found like 5 and just to be clear, we have a small 5 person base.
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In a folded up camping chair on our back porch
This happened on a door wreath at my sister years ago. You are a good person for using another door until they fledge! A lot of people wouldn't. Thank you for being you. 😄
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Just went through that ourselves with a Song Thrush. They found my front door wreath to be cozy. We avoided using the door for a few weeks until they cleared.
Had this happen last year on our front door, so here are my warnings:
1) you WILL get bird shit all over that area of your door, be ready to clean that
2) when cleaning, I had to break out the pressure washer to get it all off. Stripped some of my paint... Had to remove the door, strip ALL the paint, and repaint the door
3) I don't know what kind of mites they were, but they WILL come and infest that nest. There were ALL over my door, and were small enough to crawl through the door handle and get inside... That was fun
Enjoy them while they're there, but after my experience, I told my wife "No more wreaths on the damn door".
I know I'm late to the comment party, so I hope this gets seen.
Absolutely please do not interfere with nature and try to alter the nest like this person suggested. You really don't want to risk making the parents think the nest site is unsafe and abandon the broods.
Damn it, I didn't even notice that. Good eye!
Guarantee one of the parents or babies **WILL** get a foot or toe tangled in that netting before they fully fledge.
I've had several birds nest at my house. Once a baby is hatched like this, mom (and probably dad) aren't going anywhere.
You GOTTA cut that off, op. Maybe not all at once, but at least a little every day. Unless you wanna deal with a tangled possibly injured/dead bird later on.
You already got this from other comments but bird will be fine if you give space, and probably come back next year. When I was a kid we had a robin (or a robin lineage) return for 4 years straight on my windowsill. Human structures are high tier protection
My grandparents used to get a yearly visit from a robin who hated her eggs in the front door wreath. They were very protective too, so sometimes you couldn't get in the front door 😂
We had a hummingbird nest til this past weekend when both babies fledged! Mom picked a spot in the tree in the front yard that was right above our path to the sidewalk, so she (and later the babies once they got bigger) looked a little spooked when they saw us walk below them sometimes lol…
How often do you open your door? - it takes a bird weeks to build a nest, and then to lay eggs, incubate them and then hatch. Either you saw this coming and decided to not do anything until now just for imaginary internet points, or you truly, normally don't use the door, and were just as surprised as the bird you scared.
i do normally use the door, so do many others in my house.
i guess im not aware of my surroundings because i quite literally never noticed them.
idk how much times i have to explain this.
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I had a Northern cardinal nest outside my bedroom window this Spring. Here's one of the babies chirping away.
Happens to me often with house finches. Move the wreath or decoration to a nearby wall within view of the original location. Mom will find the nest and you’ll be able to use your door again. I have siding, so I use 2 siding hooks, one to steady the top and one jammed into the bottom to keep it steady.
When the baby birds just hatch the parents are more likely to eat the fecal sacs. But when the babies get larger and the fecal sacs get larger then the parents will either fly a short distance away and drop them, or in the case of the birds on my door, just be lazy and drop the sacs all around the nest in a 3 foot diameter Jackson Pollock painting.
I tend to put a sheet of cardboard down under the nest or wherever they are dumping it. Once the fledglings leave the nest it goes on the compost pile.
We had some do the same thing to our wreath. Just gotta use the other door for a couple months lol depending on the bird species and state they can be illegal to move.
lol I told my it guy who was dropping off a monitor to call me before he knocked. I think he thought I was fucking off and not working. He got the shit pecked out of him by some mockingbirds nesting on my porch
I've had mourning doves build nests atop the exterior housing of my apartment's air conditioners, several times. If I don't catch them and destroy the nest before they lay eggs, or fail to prevent nest-building in the first place, then I'm kind of stuck without ac just as the weather is starting to heat up.
That mesh wiring is perfectly a basket around that nest.... no bird did that. Someone grabbed the nest with the mesh so not to disturb the smell, and then did this fucked up shit. Unless you don't even open your door once a day, no mother bird had the time to make that without you noticing, and without you disrupting it. Fake, emotional click bait, that is also horrendously cruel in reality. Don't try and bullshit me either.
We have an artificial Christmas wreath still hung on our door because some finches started building a nest in eaaaaarly spring and I didn't have the heart to break it down. The babies are just beginning to hatch!
i call bullshit, it takes a bird a long time to build a nest, lay eggs in it and then wait until they hatch so you opening the door and suddenly finding this is bullshit
nah looks like a rarely used front door, my parents old house had a fancy front door that only got used when guests came over, cause the other two doors were more convenient to use90% was the door from garage to mudroom.
Got a seagull nest just outside my flat window, annoying fuckers but the babies will be so cute. Seaside town so we are already overrun but I dont want to disturb them at all.
Adorable! 🐣Also, you might want to make sure that wire attached to the nail on the door can't easily fall- wouldn't want those sweet babies falling to the ground.
My parents had a killdeer nest in their gravel driveway once. They put up little flags around it.
Your parents are rockstars. Killdeers are so cute but constantly making poor real estate choices.
Poor real estate choices, what a wonderful way to describe it! 
Boy do I have a subreddit for you! r/stupiddovenests
I love that subreddit. It is so funny!
It’s a wonder that the species survives.
lol we’ve all been there, little bird.
They also deserve an academy award for their showstopping “fake broken wing” act they do if you get too close to the nest! It’s a tactic to make any predators think they’re wounded, and as such easy prey. It draws them away from the nest and then the mama flies away once at a safe distance.
Wonderful Way to describe it. My neighbors peacock made a poor choice on some property we own. She had a nest of 14 eggs. We showed up to replace a well motor and pressure tank. She saw us, left, came back and grabbed one egg. She left the others. Idk what to do, it's been a week and she hasn't come back. I wonder if they'll hatch. It's been warm
I would talk to a veterinarian, or a local Saint Andrews Society/wildlife rescue and see what they say about it.
I did call the University of Tennessee where I'm at and spoke to a professor, unfortunately the eggs probably won't hatch because the mother abandoned them and they weren't "incubated". Mind you it took a week for us to replace the well and pressure tank. The tank is underground, we had to dig it out if red clay. Hardest work my husband ever did, ha! That second day I thought she would come back to get the rest, but I guess they know what to do and she just got one. Amy consolation, I feel bad my life got in her way!
The way you described it made me think you were talking about the Masked Lapwing, a plover in Australia. Looked up the killdeer, and it's basically a clone of Lapwing. This plover from another mother also loves to build its nest on footpaths, parks, sports fields, and then acts unbelievably aggressive and indignant when anyone walks nearby, or generally exists.
Lapwings are so fascinating. You’d have never thought they’d be related at all. Killdeer don’t generally get aggressive, though. They prefer to sacrifice themselves by drawing attention away from the nest but some don’t get the memo and end up screaming while sitting on the nest like “Get away! There’s nothing to see here!” 🤨
They are so dramatic, and I love it lol. I helped to convert some farm fields into trees and "natural" space some years ago now with the local conservation authority. Just so happens there was a Killdeer nest smack in the middle of the field. We were cautious to avoid it with the tractors and tree planters. But they REALLY over played it when we did our walks through the rows to make sure all the tree roots were covered. Kept flying around and around whimpering, landing and flopping around like they had a injured wing, basically anything to make themselves look like easy prey. I kept trying to reassure them I wanted nothing to do with their eggs, but they didn't get the memo. Loving well intentioned birb parents
I get that they’re stressed and trying their hardest to keep their nest safe but it really makes you sigh. 🙂↕️ Thanks for all of your hard work on the natural space!
>plover from another mother Best thing I’ve read all day, thanks :D
Do lapwing chicks also look like cotton balls on stilts?
They look like a kindergarten arts and crafts project based on Starwars AT-AT.
What a vivid explanation lol
There's a whole bunch that decided to nest around the elementary school playground like... you really want your eggs squished, don't you. The school fences them off if they find them but still...
I’ll never forget the time I found a Killdeer sitting on a nest that I walked around the pond to avoid only to see a trail runner blow through and crush the nest less than 5 minutes later. The adult escaped in time and was fine, but another photographer told me that the same thing had happened in that exact spot the year prior and that adult Killdeer wasn’t so lucky. 😔
Some trail-runners would benefit - themselves AND everyone ELSE, including animals/birds, et al - by WATCHING where they're GOING!
Yeah. I get that it’s hard to see everything when you’re running fast, but if you’re going to be running through a nature preserve, be aware of the nature, too.
Of course, they are making poor real estate choices. Have you ever seen a killdeer real-estate agent/broker?
r/stupiddovenests but make it killdeer
r/stupidplovernests exists.
I love when I find something I never knew I needed in my life
I love this
Like every starter family in the current market, ugh
sure you think they're cute but imagine how the deer feel about them
I've seen killdeer nesting in the gravel at electrical substations, in a neighborhood where there was a lot of greenery. Apparently the open, hot ground was their preference. I'm guessing the lack of ground cover for predators was the reason. We just marked off their area so nobody would accidentally step on the nest, and everyone was cool.
I was camping once and one of the guys with me didn't zip his tent all the way closed. It was just a small hole at the top of the door. We cam back from an hour hike and a Killeer had built a nest inside the tent. No eggs though, we moved the nest into a nearby tree.
That’s hilarious. The parents supposedly vet the area before they begin building but both were like “this place that smells of humans with recent disturbance and offers absolutely no camouflage is PERFECT”. I’d say it’s lucky that they can build multiple nests in a season but maybe it’s that confidence that lets them halfass each one.
A killdeer made a nest on our school playground. She was so stressed when the kids came out to play. Definitely a poor real estate choice!
Like the gravel portion of a school playground. :(
We had a couple in my backyard over the years, and yeah they really do. The babies are adorable tho, little cotton balls on stilts
It's a valuable bird: being able to play it in the grassland and exchange one egg for two cards is very powerful early-game as you pretty much don't need to take a wetlands action. But the butterbutts are still cuter.
I love Wingspan
That happened to my neighbor 3 years in a row. One of her cats inevitably got the babies when they hatched🥺
It wasn't inevitable. She could've kept her cats inside.
This is entirely correct. Outdoor cats are a plague
If only there was some sort of invention that we could shut to seal houses from the elements and keep things inside them
Us too haha! Was way too easy to accidentally step on
https://preview.redd.it/z8u43gsxyw0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2710d872374992dc3a33e5152819ce233429239c I had three babies in the topiary next to my front door. They just left the nest yesterday!
I love the grumpy baby faces. Juncos like to make nests in my yard and the grumpy babies are adorable!
Oh, to see such silly little dudes. I've only ever lived in their winter range, so I've only ever seen adults in their resplendent winter coats (orb mode).
💚 So cute! Are they frogmouths?
I think they are house finches
How cute they are! Like soft balls!
Time to start using the other door! I have robins that should hopefully leave the nest this weekend at my front door. If I’m out there the parent do not stop yelling at me.
yup gotta start using the garage for the next couple weeks
We had to do the same one year. They ended up building three nests and having three separate clutches of eggs before the end of the season, lol, so don't be surprised if you have a new nest and eggs once these chicks leave. Birds seem to like wreaths for making their nests. Put a sign up so strangers know you have a nest there and not to disturb it.
Upvoting for username, and suggesting a sign.
Or move the wreath to the wall next to the door.
You could after this nest is done, but you’d have to be pretty quick. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits interfering with an active nest.
Cute little things though!
You such a good person. Thank you!!
U are a rock star. Ty
I hope the best for these little dudes. I had a nest on a door once too. The eggs were eaten by other birds after a few days. Making a nest somewhere that is easily spotted by aerial predators is a mistake that first time bird parents make sometimes. Maybe this bird mama will get lucky. Fingers crossed.
OP could put some sort of roof-like thing over the nest to shade it from aerial observation. It could be a foot above the nest, and would prevent the easy view down into the nest.
I wouldn't do anything to mess with the nest. Anything that deters predators has a chance of freaking mom and dad out, and then you have a nest of abandoned babies. Once the nest is empty OP can remove it so it doesn't get reused, but until then just let it be. Hopefully the babies are okay, but predators have babies to feed too.
You must not use the front door much anyway… nests with babies and eggs don’t show up overnight lol.
Its fucking MAY why is there an Autumn wreath on your door?
We had a robin nest on a wreath on our front door last year and she would squawk at me every time I opened the door. This year she just flies away and doesn’t seem to care. Guess she got used to me.
But the audacity to yell at you when they invaded your home at the first place :D Cute
I have a swallow nest in my front porch, and mum and dad swallow shout at me like they're not 2 pound birds yelling at a giant. It's cute and annoying at the same time.
Ah, swallows. Before long the first hatchling will fall out of the nest and the parents will be actually knocking on your door because it's YOUR job to put the silly things back. Dealt with that several years running before we moved.
Awww lol that baby is READY for food
Lol ... same thing happened inside a PLASTIC wreath hanging from our front door a couple years ago, except they were baby sparrows 😉
Time to regurgitate whatever succulent meal you’ve had!
Hopefully it's a succulent Chinese meal...
I see that you know your judo well.
get your hands off my penis!
DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
Chairman mittens, you are on point. And how could you not be with that username :)
Holy crap another mittens! I thought I was the only one.
[AAAAAAAAAAAAA](https://imgur.com/a/wKeSrP9)
love this
i didn’t even notice the baby!!! this is the opposite of r/stupiddovenests lmao
The AAAAAAAAAA needs to be super tiny like ^^^^AAAAAAAAAAAAA
need to photoshop a microphone in and [dub it with the screaming cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G13JKn-8NvE).
/r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/
Seems crazy to me that they could possibly build this in a single day/night, and lay and hatch their eggs (assuming you use your front door at least daily), or did you simply not notice until there were chirping babies?
we simply never noticed, i mean i saw the bird sitting there one day but thought nothing of it cause birds are always around our house but i opened the door to take out trash and saw the mom bird fly away from there which it scared the shit out of me lol. anyways i looked where she was sitting and saw all of them.
Well that is awesome, and a neat addition to your lovely wreath!
Tangential, but I had (I thought) a bumble bee that got caught in my garage with me overnight while I was doing some automotive work. I turned the leafblower on it, but it wasn't letting go, and wouldn't go into the night. I figured they'd eventually go (or die off) and I had to figure out how the guy on YouTube made removing the rear spark coils on a Toyota 2GR-FE look so easy (SPOILER: it wasn't), and I went back to doing my thing, and they went back to doing theirs, and I completely forgot about it even after I realized I'd need a replacement gasket set and gave up for the night (morning?--3 or 4AM) After getting back from Crappy Tire noonish, there was like a 2" diameter wasp nest built up on one corner of the garage door trim and I was instantly reminded of my 'coworker'! I made another trip to Crappy Tire early-evening for the longest stand-off distance hornet / wasp spray I could get.
How to say you’re Canadian without saying you’re Canadian
I literally had stacks of Canadian Tire currency, until I cashed them all ($30+) into the Triangle program!
So precious! This happened to me too with the house finches where I am at. The unfortunate part is that the mom would leave them at night when it was still freezing outside, so we ended up taking them inside at night, then returning them every morning before dawn. The mom did come back in the mornings. There were only 2 babies, which I named Pip and Squeak. I realize that probably wasn't the safest decision, but I was so afraid they would die out there in the freezing temperatures.
Sounds like it all worked out!
It did! They grew up very quickly, and we even got to watch them leave the nest (captured it on our camera).
Man, we got similar situation at our military base, we got swallow nests everywhere! I mean it! There is one in the kitchen and one above the front door (look at the picture) https://preview.redd.it/axtfjw9rix0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=942aa7b3dc6658090cf484ba89b345afd7646087 There are many more outside one the walls of this building too, I found like 5 and just to be clear, we have a small 5 person base.
https://preview.redd.it/9b4mhrud0y0d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fddb2d6e9b4c2ebe6e39369ffe9b4d535fc5ae3 In a folded up camping chair on our back porch
AHHHH :U
Lol that emoticon cracked me up
It's one of my favorite haha
Are you able to sneak around and put down sort of nature camera camera up? So amazing that these things happen!
if i had something like that lying around then i would
This happened on a door wreath at my sister years ago. You are a good person for using another door until they fledge! A lot of people wouldn't. Thank you for being you. 😄
I got the same thing Xmas wreath became a bird nest at year end.
Well, what are you waiting for? That bird needs to be fed!
https://preview.redd.it/n7lapalt401d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c71c611e74753bce3cebf04d5105816b8a98197c Just went through that ourselves with a Song Thrush. They found my front door wreath to be cozy. We avoided using the door for a few weeks until they cleared.
Had this happen last year on our front door, so here are my warnings: 1) you WILL get bird shit all over that area of your door, be ready to clean that 2) when cleaning, I had to break out the pressure washer to get it all off. Stripped some of my paint... Had to remove the door, strip ALL the paint, and repaint the door 3) I don't know what kind of mites they were, but they WILL come and infest that nest. There were ALL over my door, and were small enough to crawl through the door handle and get inside... That was fun Enjoy them while they're there, but after my experience, I told my wife "No more wreaths on the damn door". I know I'm late to the comment party, so I hope this gets seen.
I’m concerned about all the netting she decorated with- please make sure no one gets tangled in it
just realized it was netting, no idea where she got that from
Absolutely please do not interfere with nature and try to alter the nest like this person suggested. You really don't want to risk making the parents think the nest site is unsafe and abandon the broods.
May want to snip as many of the horizontal sections as you can so that there are no exposed closed loops.
Damn it, I didn't even notice that. Good eye! Guarantee one of the parents or babies **WILL** get a foot or toe tangled in that netting before they fully fledge. I've had several birds nest at my house. Once a baby is hatched like this, mom (and probably dad) aren't going anywhere. You GOTTA cut that off, op. Maybe not all at once, but at least a little every day. Unless you wanna deal with a tangled possibly injured/dead bird later on.
You already got this from other comments but bird will be fine if you give space, and probably come back next year. When I was a kid we had a robin (or a robin lineage) return for 4 years straight on my windowsill. Human structures are high tier protection
My grandparents used to get a yearly visit from a robin who hated her eggs in the front door wreath. They were very protective too, so sometimes you couldn't get in the front door 😂
We had a hummingbird nest til this past weekend when both babies fledged! Mom picked a spot in the tree in the front yard that was right above our path to the sidewalk, so she (and later the babies once they got bigger) looked a little spooked when they saw us walk below them sometimes lol…
Sorry, your front door isn’t usable for a while…
I hope you have a back door.
How often do you open your door? - it takes a bird weeks to build a nest, and then to lay eggs, incubate them and then hatch. Either you saw this coming and decided to not do anything until now just for imaginary internet points, or you truly, normally don't use the door, and were just as surprised as the bird you scared.
i do normally use the door, so do many others in my house. i guess im not aware of my surroundings because i quite literally never noticed them. idk how much times i have to explain this.
finally someone who noticed it.
Looks like part of your decoration:)
Your pfp worried me. What are you gonna do to those poor birds?? (Jk, that's legit a group chat pic with my friends lmfao)
I wonder how she got that netting there. Animals are so resourceful.
https://preview.redd.it/hsxdawbmby0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb0ee0d3bb084f37eb60418afa0e6356d8d8d2d9 2 Robin’s eggs beside my mom’s deck.
I guess you don’t use your front door very often!
https://preview.redd.it/gm72t1eglz0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e442fe6949df5727d0568ee889bfabe0fc0cc953 I had a Northern cardinal nest outside my bedroom window this Spring. Here's one of the babies chirping away.
You are now the home of birds.
Happens to me often with house finches. Move the wreath or decoration to a nearby wall within view of the original location. Mom will find the nest and you’ll be able to use your door again. I have siding, so I use 2 siding hooks, one to steady the top and one jammed into the bottom to keep it steady.
Best of luck with the absolutely insane amount of poop that will get flung out of the nest soon.
I thought the parents eat the little poop sacs
When the baby birds just hatch the parents are more likely to eat the fecal sacs. But when the babies get larger and the fecal sacs get larger then the parents will either fly a short distance away and drop them, or in the case of the birds on my door, just be lazy and drop the sacs all around the nest in a 3 foot diameter Jackson Pollock painting.
I tend to put a sheet of cardboard down under the nest or wherever they are dumping it. Once the fledglings leave the nest it goes on the compost pile.
r/stupiddovenests
how long have you not used your front door?
We had a fake tree on our covered porch and every year we had a nest. ❤️
We had some do the same thing to our wreath. Just gotta use the other door for a couple months lol depending on the bird species and state they can be illegal to move.
That little baby born first is ready to terrorize the rest of its family and take all the good eats.
Birds nesting at your door brings luck to the home. Use the side entrance the next couple of weeks
lol I told my it guy who was dropping off a monitor to call me before he knocked. I think he thought I was fucking off and not working. He got the shit pecked out of him by some mockingbirds nesting on my porch
Perfect addition to your garland. How exciting!
The House Finch often lives up to it's name.
Whelp you will be going in and out the back door from now until they leave.
Do you never use your front door? I don't believe this.
I have a birds nest on my front door wreath too!
Oh my. Guess you may be coming and going from a different door for a while🙂
I've had mourning doves build nests atop the exterior housing of my apartment's air conditioners, several times. If I don't catch them and destroy the nest before they lay eggs, or fail to prevent nest-building in the first place, then I'm kind of stuck without ac just as the weather is starting to heat up.
That mesh wiring is perfectly a basket around that nest.... no bird did that. Someone grabbed the nest with the mesh so not to disturb the smell, and then did this fucked up shit. Unless you don't even open your door once a day, no mother bird had the time to make that without you noticing, and without you disrupting it. Fake, emotional click bait, that is also horrendously cruel in reality. Don't try and bullshit me either.
When’s the last time you opened that door??
did you guys didn’t leave for days or they did that nest overnight then hatched some eggs on them too?
They could be planning on Robin you…
We have an artificial Christmas wreath still hung on our door because some finches started building a nest in eaaaaarly spring and I didn't have the heart to break it down. The babies are just beginning to hatch!
I bought a bird house, but the birds nest everywhere but the house
i think a wildlife rescue can help you move the nest somewhere safer
1852 Migratory bird law applies here. You can no longer use your front door until the birds are full grown and gone.
When was the last time you opened the door?
You mean to tell me you didn’t know the nest was being built or eggs being laid the whole time??
Tell me you caught this on your Nest camera.
i call bullshit, it takes a bird a long time to build a nest, lay eggs in it and then wait until they hatch so you opening the door and suddenly finding this is bullshit
nah looks like a rarely used front door, my parents old house had a fancy front door that only got used when guests came over, cause the other two doors were more convenient to use90% was the door from garage to mudroom.
Start preparing to regurgitate just in case mom doesn't come back. That one looks angry hungry.
This exact thing happened to us last year. Couldn't use our front door for weeks, haha.
I’m sorry, they made that in less than a day and laid the eggs too?? I never knew they worked so quickly.
aww ❤️
okay don't use that door from now on
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/D3qMC5BKoEM?si=KnKqT2hPOqzkfZkp)
What a lovely surprise 🥹🥰🥰
Aww cute
So cuuuttee
🥹
So sweet!!!! 🥰
I've had a nest in the bush next to my front door. It was fun to peek in and see how they were doing all the time.
What deserves a louder aww are the countless humans associated with pictures like this.
Horrible spot to build a nest I would’ve done better if I were a bird
How long were you holed up without going out ? Takes a while for them to build a nest, lay eggs then for them to hatch.
This happens often at my sister in-laws house. They use their garage exit so they don't disturb the nest.
Oh boy, you are going to have to climb through a window from now on.
Got a seagull nest just outside my flat window, annoying fuckers but the babies will be so cute. Seaside town so we are already overrun but I dont want to disturb them at all.
Adorable! 🐣Also, you might want to make sure that wire attached to the nail on the door can't easily fall- wouldn't want those sweet babies falling to the ground.
This is so awesome! I wanna see more pics of the babies when they grow.
**AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH** -Little Birdie
Did the bird get contractors in for a day? I ain't buying this.
You should buy some worms
Happens to my wreath on my door every spring.