I found this progression of photos on the net a few weeks ago. I don’t now know where, or who should get the credit, but they are truly wonderful so my grateful thanks go to the originator.
I found this progression of photos on the net a few weeks ago. I don’t now know where, or who should get the credit, but they are truly wonderful so my grateful thanks go to the originator.
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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Watched something similar in the Canaries one year – 2 weeks holiday with young kids so lots of “pool time”. I asked one of the staff about it and he took me around the other side of the hotel – every balcony had a nest because it was cooler that side. What I had seen was the “overflow” to the hot side 😀
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Fantastic to watch.
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Its also remarkably quick.
Most of it is done inside a day but work continues for a week or more until the walls are thick enough to insulate the interior. The exit is positioned to draw air out of the front of the nest.
The design is similar to some ancient desert dwellings IIRC, I doubt the birds learnt from us 😉
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I suspect we learned from the birds!
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I think we might need to do so again in a warming world….
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And the birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs so we really learned from a stegasaurus.
I had a bird’s nest on my rear balcony a few years ago. The little blighter left a horrid toilety mess. Grrrrr.
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I hope Orange Arlene isn’t reading this, you blasphemer.
On your REAR balcony? You have two balconies?
Munuin says he wants to come and live with you. It’s obviously grander Chez Entoure than it is in Munguin Towers.
Be pleased to prepare a suitable suite… with the bird poo washed off the balcony!
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It does sound grand, doesn’t it. The rear balcony is big enough to store a bucket and mop and my various piles for recycling. The nesting bird should have chosen the front with a relaxing view of a river. I took its mess to be a review of the facilities.
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Hmmm… “this is what I think of the facilities!!!”
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YES…..YES…….for all their housing ingenuity, birds have never figured out a way to incorporate bathroom facilities in their abodes. I had a bird who was determined to build a nest behind my front porch light, and use the area immediately by my front entrance for her USE. She would build overnight and I would knock it down in the morning. Then she would start construction again and I would knock it down again. (Not that there weren’t lots of other suitable building locations.) It took about a week of this to convince her to move her nest location to a tree in the front yard.
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Looking at that I’m really not sure why Bird’s nest soup is a delicacy even if it is a guid hoose!
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LOL
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I’m pretty certain they’re Red Oven Birds from Central/South America.
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I know – there needs to be an sarcasm emoji!
That said the real edible ones don’t sound any more appetising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest
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I didn’t know they were real.
I thought that that was just a name, like Brown Windsor Soup…
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I think you are right.
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