hello all,
i'm looking for any advice/comments on our situation,
i've noticed a couple of birds hanging around outside our house they seem to fly away from a section of our roof whenever i walk outside.
They are indian minahs, so i'm told.
anyway i thought they're building a nest and i best get rid of it, as they are building it in a junction box or header box that takes a heck of a lot of water from our roof and delivers it to drop pipe and drainage as normal,
anyway i get up to have a look on the ladder and no sign of eggs so decide to start taking it out, anyway half way through i notice there is definately eggs about 4 of them,
i think the eggs are probably only a few days old maybe as much as a week or so.
anyway the bird is still around, a pair of them i see at lot, but i think only one of them sits on the eggs, each time i go out she flys away, i'm thinking it must be the mother etc,
so to cut along story short
a) i've removed half the nest before noticing eggs
b) stopped when i saw the eggs and left as is
c) parent still around.
The header/hopper whatever was pretty much full with twigs/leaves etc and is now half full, the main nest is still intact and eggs etc
but we have a dilemma.....
i) if the nest is removed, and placed someplace else, the eggs are likely to be rejected, but i'm no expert.
ii) if we leave as is, the birds should do okay until we get rain and then they will either probably drown or get swept down the downpipe into the surface drainage sewer?
so it seems they are doomed, any comments or advice on what can be done.
i'm led to believe indian minah birds are not native and the council will probably do nothing about it.
it a ppor so not a landlord problem as such
images attached
i'm looking for any advice/comments on our situation,
i've noticed a couple of birds hanging around outside our house they seem to fly away from a section of our roof whenever i walk outside.
They are indian minahs, so i'm told.
anyway i thought they're building a nest and i best get rid of it, as they are building it in a junction box or header box that takes a heck of a lot of water from our roof and delivers it to drop pipe and drainage as normal,
anyway i get up to have a look on the ladder and no sign of eggs so decide to start taking it out, anyway half way through i notice there is definately eggs about 4 of them,
i think the eggs are probably only a few days old maybe as much as a week or so.
anyway the bird is still around, a pair of them i see at lot, but i think only one of them sits on the eggs, each time i go out she flys away, i'm thinking it must be the mother etc,
so to cut along story short
a) i've removed half the nest before noticing eggs
b) stopped when i saw the eggs and left as is
c) parent still around.
The header/hopper whatever was pretty much full with twigs/leaves etc and is now half full, the main nest is still intact and eggs etc
but we have a dilemma.....
i) if the nest is removed, and placed someplace else, the eggs are likely to be rejected, but i'm no expert.
ii) if we leave as is, the birds should do okay until we get rain and then they will either probably drown or get swept down the downpipe into the surface drainage sewer?
so it seems they are doomed, any comments or advice on what can be done.
i'm led to believe indian minah birds are not native and the council will probably do nothing about it.
it a ppor so not a landlord problem as such
images attached