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Old 30-01-2011, 11:11 PM posted to uk.rec.birdwatching,uk.rec.gardening
Mike Coon[_2_] Mike Coon[_2_] is offline
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Darkside wrote:
(I once found a nest with 23 eggs behind the headlamp reflector of a
bus. The lamp itself was missing and they flew in and out of the
hole.)


I had meant to say that I thought that blue tits didn't know how to make a
self-supporting nest the way other birds do, using twigs, mud, cobwebs and
so forth.

Mentioning the headlamp reminds me that I was walking along a dual
carriageway in suburban Bracknell when a blue tit flew across the road but
seemed to disappear half way. I stopped and watched and a pair were entering
a traffic light housing on the central reservation via a cable hole in the
back and presumably feeding young inside. The light only changed for buses
to emerge from a bus lane so was mostly on one colour. Thus the other
bulb(s) must have kept cool. I actually have a photo (somewhere!) of a bird
at the hole.

Mike.
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