04-25-2011, 02:31 PM
billb wrote:
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.
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She must be stubborn! i was reading this thread and was about to go out and check on the nest. But, that shrub is right outside my office window and i glanced out just in time to see Mom return to the nest and sit on the egg! i quietly took a pic but blinds are in the way. i'll try to get one later after i raise the blind. don't want to raise it now as it might spook her and i think that egg needs some warming. she wasn't on it when i glanced out a few times earlier this morning.
yes, it was a severe pruning. i'm so tired of how prolific this shrub Japanese Euonymus, as i've recently learned - that i wouldn't mind if it didn't grow back. however, one site says it can stand radical pruning. the only thing it apparently hurts is your neighbor's perception of your your.