04-25-2011, 01:23 PM
Looks like robin to me too.
And using the nest moved / disturbed is something a robin would do.
If you had ripped it apart it would have just built another one.
Likely in the same spot if it was stubborn enough.
I had one build a nest on a post ( despite me pushing the starts off several times) . Had to fix a window so a cat couldn't get at it ( post was right under a open window in a barn) and then I built a little roof for it, too.
I've had one insist on building a nest for the last three years in a cherry tree I have to spray ( covering the nest when I spray is a PITA ) and it won every year.
Is that trimmed bush being yanked out or is it supposed to grow back ?
That's a pretty hard pruning.
And using the nest moved / disturbed is something a robin would do.
If you had ripped it apart it would have just built another one.
Likely in the same spot if it was stubborn enough.
I had one build a nest on a post ( despite me pushing the starts off several times) . Had to fix a window so a cat couldn't get at it ( post was right under a open window in a barn) and then I built a little roof for it, too.
I've had one insist on building a nest for the last three years in a cherry tree I have to spray ( covering the nest when I spray is a PITA ) and it won every year.
Is that trimmed bush being yanked out or is it supposed to grow back ?
That's a pretty hard pruning.