Nancy saw some potted plants on sale last week at Lowe’s and bought a couple. We have a perfect place to hang them on our front porch and she put them there. Within an hour, a pair of house finches saw the plants and deemed the one on the right as worthy of a bird’s nest, and so it is. A bird’s nest.
“They’re not going to like it when I have to water,” Nancy said, but she left the nesting birds to their tasks.
Birds find the most interesting places to build their nests. Sometimes they build on front porches above the exterior lights. Sometimes they’ll building a newspaper box on the street. If you leave a pair of old boots outside, they’ll build there.
Wrens are notorious for building in unsuspecting places. A male wren will often build numerous, haphazard nests, waiting for his spouse to decide which nest, and then she redoes everything, as women often do.
I don’t know if our finches will call that potted plant home, but it is well protected and it’s theirs if they choose. Nature is amazing.