Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Spring and The Baby Birds

So I love Spring.


Flowers are blooming, the grass is getting green,


the leaves on the tree's are coming out of their buds,


birds making nests for their baby chickadee's.




So a month ago I seen a bird fly out of the tongue of


our fifthwheel trailer. Then a few days later I started noticing


that she would fly away when going to the mailbox or


getting into the car in the driveway.


I looked inside the tongue but couldn't find any nest so I just


thought she was using it to perch onto. Well this scernio continued


all week. One night at dinner I told Scott about what I had seen


all week long. So later on he got a flashlight and went out to investigate


to see if their was indeed a nest in the tongue. He came back with the


news I wasn't prepared for.........




"She has a nest built up inside the shell of the trailer"




So I went out to check it out for myself. There it was....... a big nest inside


the undercarriage of the trailer.....with baby birdies chirping away.




Noting that this could become a problem if we decided to


take our trailer out camping,


what would happen if we took off with the nest inside with the babies


and the mother bird wasn't inside, so we decided that we wouldn't take the trailer out until they were gone and to leave her and the baby


birds alone so they wouldn't go further into the trailer.




So tonight after Scott got home from work, he walked out to the tongue of


the trailer and couldn't hear any birds chirping, so he looked inside and


couldn't see any birds either. So after dinner we went out to check again


and still no birds, so we decided while we had the chance we pulled down the skin of


the trailer and he pulled out the nest with a metal rod.




This is what we ended up with.






4 individual nests and more






The hole into the trailer (the size of my thumb)


We determined that they have been making

nests in our trailer for a few years (our trailer is 5 yrs old).

There was lots of pine needles to lead us to believe that

a few nests were built in Idaho at our place where we leave

our trailer throughout the summer.

Scott took some caulking and went all around the hole and

the seams to make sure that there won't be any more

birds trying to make the trailer their home.



To discover that we had a nest of baby birds inside our trailer

was such a surprise but to discover how many nests were inside and what

we pulled out was even more of a surprise.








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