SOME THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT BIRD NESTS.

SOME THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT BIRD NESTS. I haven’t seen a lot of bird nests—a few under eaves. Sometimes small birds can be seen visiting nests under the roof at the Darien train station. Jack Sanders had an article about bird nests in our local Darien Times a while ago. I had thought that birds got the nest built in a day or two, but it turns out that construction often takes a long time. For example, a robin takes one to three weeks to make one. Birds get better and faster in making nests with practice. And most nests are hidden. The ones that we see tend to be built by by big birds who have no fear, which is why night herons can build nests that are easy to see. Night herons seem to show up overnight in a nest because they do show up overnight. They are simply moving back to last year’s nest.