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Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 14,375 Send Message	Annx	Report	25 Mar 2010 18:01
	I love the round Magpie nests with a roof of twigs on. I've always wondered why they don't use them all the year round......much warmer on frosty nights! lol
	Researching: Staffordshire, Warwickshire
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 13,766 Send Message	Running Bear	Report	25 Mar 2010 15:50
	and some of the smaller birds have ball like nest others open nests, why crows nest at the top of tree, owls in holes in tree trunks it just goes on and on, so many questions,
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 13,766 Send Message	Running Bear	Report	25 Mar 2010 15:33
	another thought, why do black birds have different nest to say yellow birds
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 13,766 Send Message	Running Bear	Report	25 Mar 2010 15:31
	so they have no choice in the matter, is it the cock or hen that builds the nests?
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	25 Mar 2010 15:25
	its all in the genes, they are born with the knowledge built in! and all done with a beak and a claw........no diy tools for them, and no delivery service on the materials either!!
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 13,766 Send Message	Running Bear	Report	25 Mar 2010 15:19
	Birds build nests when they have very small brains, and no training