Birds nesting- what's checks prior to a job?

[Graham]

I spent a childhood mooching and bird's nesting and became very proficient in finding nests and knowing where to look. I know it was wrong but we were just simple country lads:001_smile: It taught me the likely places where goldfinches, chaffinches etc etc nest so I'm always on the lookout for nests.

 

Observation is the key. Spend some time before the job looking to see what's about. Listen to what's about. Give the tree or hedge a tap and see if anything is disturbed. If anything flies out then sit back because they'll soon return if they're sitting. On a wet day they'll be reluctant to fly and will return quicker if they do fly. If they're feeding young then you'll see them flying in on a regular basis.

 

If you're climbing get your mate to look for birds leaving as you climb.

 

I try my best but was devastated a couple of years ago when I missed a GS woodpecker's nest and destroyed it doing a fracture prune on a dead tree.

 

I won't do any conifers from the end of March until Sept nowadays.

[breffni]

My boss only looked at the job a couple of weeks ago so I don't know why he didn't mention them, unless he thought I'd just go ahead.....

 

 

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[j r hartly]

I thought squirrels lived in drays?

 

trees, waves and cakes!!:-)

[Grass hopper]

I had a bitch of a customer last Friday tell me to remove a nest form the tree I was working on I told her I would not go within 6 ft of it because there was 2 eggs in it , there was no eggs but she did not know that , the magpie was sitting on the wall looking at me. She wanted the tree cut in half , never meet anyone like her before evil. And there was 3 sets of Christmas lights in the same tree and wanted them reset , tie wrapped to every branch , just trying to climb it and not hang myself was hard going.

[timberbear]

It's not only trees that need checking, I found straw hanging out of my tractor, removed cover to find six robin eggs in there. Moved tractor to a quieter part of the shed, mother and eggs doing fine. The problem is I needed the tractor to plough the plots to put the wild bird seed in for next winter!

[Grass hopper]

Super timberbear , my bro in law had the same thing last year but on the roof of the tractor

were the lining had come away.