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Previously on "Problems with a bird - moral dilemma, help needed!"

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Thats one heck of a nest, it must be a strong bird. Is it a European blackbird or an African blackbird


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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Bummer. That is all you need, some single mum shackled up in your shed.
    Yeah, too right, not with the other one under the patio already

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  • Platypus
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    Picture

    Here's the nest:



    No sign of mum since I set the camera up, all the commotion may have scared her off

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    I can't see. The nest is approx 7 feet above the floor. But I suspect not - she's still bringing nest building stuff to the shed. I just looked outside and she's having some malarkey with a male nearby, so eggs may be on the way shortly!
    Bummer. That is all you need, some single mum shacked up in your shed.

    On the upside, I am led to believe that Blackbird Egg Omelettes are extra yummy.
    Circle of Life innit?

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    You've eaten all those
    I've eaten a few less than you Herr ChubMeister!

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    Jesus would bomb the nest into dust and then re-build it ensuring lucrative nest re-construction contracts went to the right companies with beneficial terms for future egg supplies.
    You are Tony Bliar and I claim my five free billionaire friends.

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  • Old Greg
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    Jesus would bomb the nest into dust and then re-build it ensuring lucrative nest re-construction contracts went to the right companies with beneficial terms for future egg supplies.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Also a slightly bigger pie!
    You've eaten all those

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Looking on the "moving bird's nest" forum is that moving a nest means the bye bye baby birds. Apparently though they should be up and running in a month, so put plenty of newspapers and plastic sheeting around on the floor and wait a month.
    Then after the babies have flown away block the place up so the adult can't return next year.

    Anyway least it's not pigeons (vermin) or robins (noisy) or ducks (noisy but funny if they are a mile from the pond) ..........

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Oi Shirley! 4 and 20!
    Two dozen innit?

    A neighbour once found a Victorian country house cookbook and it was full of recipes with those kind of quantities.

    Obviously all the staff needed feeding as well.

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    From the thread title I thought you were going to tell us you had woken up with a munter and needed help deciding whether to wake her up and deal with it or gnaw your own arm off to escape
    tee hee the thought that the thread title might be slightly misleading never crossed my mind

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Oi Shirley! 4 and 20!
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Apparently so.

    I think 5 and 20 parses better.
    Also a slightly bigger pie!

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  • BlasterBates
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    Looking on the "moving bird's nest" forum is that moving a nest means the bye bye baby birds. Apparently though they should be up and running in a month, so put plenty of newspapers and plastic sheeting around on the floor and wait a month.

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    Excellent, there I was thinking you were going to suggest getting the butler to remove the nest, but no, much funnier
    From the thread title I thought you were going to tell us you had woken up with a munter and needed help deciding whether to wake her up and deal with it or gnaw your own arm off to escape

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    Obligatory "Your a contractor" comment.

    Get your butler to do it by tying the clothes to his arms and spinning around in circles in the garden until they are dry.
    Excellent, there I was thinking you were going to suggest getting the butler to remove the nest, but no, much funnier

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