Bird Nesting in my Hanging Flowerpot
phill173
13 years ago
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Comments (15)Curly, I, too, had a bird's nest in my Duchesse d'Auerstadt arbor - a cardinal's nest. I spooked her twice. Once trying to tuck in some wayward canes and once trying to get a photo of the babies. Turns out the babies were more mature than I thought. They flew away. Woosh! Scared me good. I was on the phone with my sister at the time, and she was yelling, "Get away, get away, you'll hurt them. They won't be able to get back in the nest." I said, "Sue, they FLEW AWAY. They're fine." Yours is very cute. Just wait till they hatch! Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation......See MoreBird nest in hanging fern
Comments (5)Mama bird will most likely come back. I would suggest watering by taking the fern down and carefully watering around the nest, using a watering can without a spray head. This will be tricky when there are nestlings in the nest. A robin built a nest in my peach tree one time. It wasn't watering that was a problem for me but spraying the tree with pesticides. If you don't spray a peach tree, your peaches will have worms. What I did was to spray only the lower limbs below the nest, very carefully. Sometimes it is hard to decide how much you want to save something - bird or plant....See MoreBird nest in my fuschia
Comments (1)OT, but not OT - I had an epiphyllum in a hanging pot that a dove raised 3 (THREE!) sets of babies in one year. She'd even sit there when I watered the thing (veery slowly, at a trickle, to not flood the 'nest'). That plant never grew so well as it did the 3 years doves nested in it. I think it was the dove equivalent of a king size bed!...See MoreBirds Nest in my fuschia, how to keep watering it?
Comments (8)Keep watering it, unless you are willing to let the plant die for the sake of the nest. Even then if it shrivels and drops all its leaves the concealment the bird is making use of will no longer be there anyway. If you water from the side only maybe the nest and eggs will actually float up and settle back down again each time, I don't know. Or maybe you could water more slowly, in sections, so that the nest isn't flooded....See Morephill173
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