Are birds lazier than they used to be?

recylingbin

or maybe less talented?
it's something I've been keeping an eye on for the last couple of years and it has finally reached the point where I need to speak up and be heard.
This year, the amount of nests or large sections of nests that I've picked off the lawn has been alarming and no little pain in the hole. A lack of craft in the nest building trade could have major repercussions for us all.
What's to be done?

endacl

Sounds like you need a new bird...

Specialun

Cut backs

Gummy Panda

Bleedin foreign birds and their shoddy nest building

Ilik Urgee

Not half as lazy as some of the moths around here.

Hownowcow

Maybe they were trying to nest on the lawn.

Czarcasm

recylingbin wrote: »

or maybe less talented?
it's something I've been keeping an eye on for the last couple of years and it has finally reached the point where I need to speak up and be heard.
This year, the amount of nests or large sections of nests that I've picked off the lawn has been alarming and no little pain in the hole. A lack of craft in the nest building trade could have major repercussions for us all.
What's to be done?

As misleading titles and thinly veiled threads go, I salute you Sir! :pac:

Micky Dolenz

Why do birds fly south for the winter?

It's quicker then walking.

theholyghost

There are two brids on my roof collecting food and bringing it back to their offspring all day, they were on the job at 11pm this morning and still at it at 9pm.

So I think it is outrageous for the OP to suggest birds are lazy.

IM0

they sourcing their stuff, from factories with low paid workers in poor countries what do you expect

Dyr

Anyone who says the nest building industry is falling down should commit suicide

Roger_007

recylingbin wrote: »

or maybe less talented?
it's something I've been keeping an eye on for the last couple of years and it has finally reached the point where I need to speak up and be heard.
This year, the amount of nests or large sections of nests that I've picked off the lawn has been alarming and no little pain in the hole. A lack of craft in the nest building trade could have major repercussions for us all.
What's to be done?

Are they possibly using pyrite??

Banjo String

A bird shat on the windscreen of my car last Wednesday evening.


She can walk home from the cinema the next time, cos she'll never get near my car again.

The bitch.

endacl

SamHall wrote: »

A bird shat on the windscreen of my car last Wednesday evening.


She can walk home from the cinema the next time, cos she'll never get near my car again.

The bitch.

Is that why you're in a cart?

The Backwards Man

A willy wagtail has taken to looking at himself in my car mirror and shitting all over it. Dirty so and so.:(

TiGeR KiNgS

Ghost estates make for perfect nest sites, finally a use them.

Roger_007

The Backwards Man wrote: »

A willy wagtail has taken to looking at himself in my car mirror and shitting all over it. Dirty so and so.:(

I hope that's not the same William Wagtail that I know. I always thought he was perfectly respectable.:D

kingofslaves

Surely these comments belong on Twitter ?










TAXI !

Try here OP

Edit: dammit kingofslaves!

flutterflye

There is a recession you know. Costs too much to get proper materials so just using shoddy materials, the robin bast@rds. Cowboys, that's all they are. They're all just winging it and hoping no one notices.

Czarcasm

My son actually bought a bird feeder there a while ago now I think of it, and hung it from our balcony. I thought "There's no way that'll attract any birds!"...

From the label-

"Peanuts attract a wide variety of birds including Blue tit, Coal tit, Great tit, Woodpecker and Jay"...

And it actually DOES!

Micky Dolenz

Czarcasm wrote: »

My son actually bought a bird feeder there a while ago now I think of it, and hung it from our balcony. I thought "There's no way that'll attract any birds!"...

From the label-

"Peanuts attract a wide variety of birds including Blue tit, Coal tit, Great tit, Woodpecker and Jay"...

And it actually DOES!

Heh, Tits and Woodpecker.

MurdyWurdy

My cat almost caught a magpie yesterday. He pounced and it only just got away. Normally the magpies rip the piss out of the cat (follow him and try to peck his tail) So this one was either lazier or stupider than the others. If the magpies are getting lazier than why would the other birds try keep up?!

Capt'n Midnight

It's all this global warming they don't have to fly south every winter anymore.

Celly Smunt

Some bastarding bird shat a big scuttery one on my car five minutes after washing it today.I hope they fook off back where they came from.

LizT

Czarcasm wrote: »

My son actually bought a bird feeder there a while ago now I think of it, and hung it from our balcony. I thought "There's no way that'll attract any birds!"...

From the label-

"Peanuts attract a wide variety of birds including Blue tit, Coal tit, Great tit, Woodpecker and Jay"...

And it actually DOES!

Hehe

Roger_007

I noticed a lot of blue tits during the spring. I presume it was the cold!