Even the birds love #lorcottage wreaths!
I had a Wild Rose Wreath up on my front door the end of May, and then one day I noticed a bird made a wreath on it. Mama Bird, a robin, worked quickly because I didn't even see the nest in progress!
In the past, I've had birds make a nest in the center circle of the wreath but never end up laying eggs. This time around, Mama Bird made the nest smack on the top of the wreath!
A few days later, I started to peek inside the nest to check for eggs, and lo and behold, I spotted 3 beautiful blue eggs. But you have to take a quick peek, because Mama Bird is not too far away and will start yelling at you!
We don't use our front door too often, so Mama Bird was able to sit on the nest pretty much undisturbed. Anytime my husband and I opened the garage door or go for walk, she would fly off the nest to a nearby electric line attached to our house.
The only tricky part was to quickly get the mail out of the mail box right next to our front door. I was always nervous Mama Bird would come attack me since I was so close to the nest, but thankfully she didn't!
Two of the eggs hatched into tiny, fuzzy robin babies. The third egg may have had crack in it, sadly preventing the proper development of the baby inside. I would hang out in the front yard watching the nest and could see the babies popping their heads up out of the nest, mouths open for Mama Bird to come with food.
Watching the babies grow so fast was fun! Soon, they looked more like birds rather than hatchlings.
About 2 weeks after the babies hatched, they were large and starting to come out onto the nest more, so I knew it wouldn't be long before they would leave for the first time. My husband and I set out to take our walk one evening, and we saw one baby bird standing proudly on the nest for the first time.
By the time we returned from our walk, the baby bird made it out of the nest into the big world! He hopped around our little porch and flapped his wings in an attempt to fly, but would get only a foot off the ground - not bad for just starting out! He even was so adventurous that he hopped into our garage under a car, and I had to shoo him out! I didn't see the second baby out and about, so maybe he was just a bit scared of the big world unlike his brother.
The next morning, I spotted a baby bird in our front flower bed, hopping happily with Mama Bird nearby. And that was the last time I saw my little robin family!
From the nest built on my wreath to the birds leaving was about a month. I kind of missed them when they were gone, but I know they are enjoying the big trees and flying the skies!
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I too had bird nest on my Chistmas wreath and was turning brown, so was about to take down and just happen to see that a nest was there,I had been seeing a bird flying back and forth and did have the fainted idea where she was coming from I had look at my wreath from te inside and didn’t see any thing different. Well this Sunday before Memorial day bless and behold I notice some nesting filling scrap on my porch. She had build a nest and I had no idea it was there. Long story short they were born and I drove up in my drive was and their they were practicing flying, was something to see, so I went to take down the wreath and notice on egg didn’t get hatch.But thanks be to God for not trying to remove the wreath that day,because I wouldn’t had . I
seem my new renter take flying lessons. I told my family when they came over for our gathering not to use the front because I had guest and they are not to be disturbed, they laugh and look from the inside of door to see my babies.
I was away for 2 weeks and when I arrived home and walked to my front door I saw a birds nest. I was so elated and felt so lucky that of all places a mommy bird chose my home to have her family. What a special moment that was for me and will always be. I did not see any eggs but I didn’t get to close because I did want to disturb her. She continues to build her home and the anticipation continues. I can see her fly in and out of the nest from my ring doorbell camera. I am so excited for her and her babies. What a wonderful experience with nature and I will cherish it forever.
So precious . My friend in Massachusetts has a nest built in a wreath on her front door .
Two of the three eggs are light blue ( robins egg ? ) but the third is pale brown speckled …is that a different bird who laid one egg beside the other two blue eggs ?
I have a robins nest on top of my wreath on my front door. A few hatched today with one more egg to go. They are precious!
I have a little bird nesting in my wreath and she just had 4 babies . I will start using our garage too great ideas