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16-10-2011, 01:49 PM
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| | | Re: Robin nest box
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Originally Posted by jdurbo  Hi I was thinking of putting up a robin nest box! has anyone else got a box for robins and where have you sited them? I have two that come to my garden and they are mainly only on one side of the garden where there are a few bushes so behind the bushes maybe??  jen xxx | Hi, My new house is called "Robin's Nest" Does anyone know where I can find a name plate to put up outside my front door. Thanks! |
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17-10-2011, 05:58 PM
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I put up a robin box made to the open-fronted design recommended by the BTO. placed it between four and five feet high on a fence behind thick shrubbery as suggested. The robins built a nest behind a loose plank in the garage and a blackbird nested on top of the robin box !!!
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17-10-2011, 06:53 PM
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I went to Stapely water garden centre were the robins had nested in a hosepipe on display inside the centre with the young ones hiding under the shelves,also Trentham gardens a robin nested amongst the beding plants on display outside,as well as a bluetit nested in an old water pump.
I have 2 robin nest boxes in the garden none have been used.Today we had 2 Robins in the Garden Fighting I take it its territorial.
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18-10-2011, 04:22 AM
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| | | Re: Robin nest box
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Originally Posted by caernerch I put up a robin box made to the open-fronted design recommended by the BTO. placed it between four and five feet high on a fence behind thick shrubbery as suggested. The robins built a nest behind a loose plank in the garage and a blackbird nested on top of the robin box !!!
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caernerch | Funny you say that a Blackbird has nested on top of one of mine for the last two years.
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| | | Re: Robin nest box
Robins can be quite perverse in their choice of nesting sites. A couple of summers ago, robins nested in some plants for sale in the local Homebase and successfully raised a brood, despite the fact that customers were in and out all day long. | | | |
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