Simon King Wooden Robin Nestbox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Our new wooden Robin Nester designed in conjunction with TV presenter and wildlife cameraman Simon King OBE.
Robins prefer an open fronted nester, with just enough cover to protect them from prying eyes of predators. Here we have the fully open doorway with a side entry nest area all under the cover of the green painted roof.
Robins love to nest in sheds, with 24/7 access or in a porches or on shelves in outbuildings or similar. The nester is lightweight and be wired into a hedge or ivy or attached to a wall using the supplied spare loop of fixing wire. The base of the brushwood nester has a rattan landing platform with a low dividing wall separating the nesting or roosting space.
The Brushwood Robin Nester has won the best new product design at GLEE in the Pet and Wildlife category.
The Nester is also suitable for other bird species such as wagtails and spotted flycatchers which prefer the same style of open-fronted nester.
Thats a lil beauty of a box. Must make some.
Big Thumbs up.
Thank you for this video. We are going to try making some of these for our large garden. We have plenty of ivy, Holly, pyracantha, trees and shrubs for cover and sheds that have 'natural' gaps that have occurred with time.
I love this, I was thinking along this lines for blackbrids too. Will try both, obviously larger for the Blackbirds.
Interesting design....I like it and can see it being an attractive box for many types of birds herein the US .
Great work. Brilliant Robin netting boxes. Well done.
Fool
Beautiful beautiful post 🇧🇷🙏🐦🐰
Very cool
Grazie per l'idea , provero' a costruirne di simili .
Wow
Awesome
Is not the opening to the nest area a bit too big as other bigger birds could snatch out the young ,?? nor ment as a put down, just asking looks like a great box otherwise
Hi what are the sizes to make this box
Like design off both well done before I replicate I’ve got one question does the fact it’s quite open compared with others I’ve seen well does that not put them off?
This design is specifically attractive for robins, so it depends on which species you are hoping to attract,
yeah, nice and easy for rats and magpies to find and great access too!
You have a valid point
Robins evolved to use this kind of semi-open. They might not use the familiar truly enclosed birdhouse with the tiny hole.
Would they still nest if I had a little camera in the open space of the wording box ?
We can't say yes for definite as we haven't tried one in this specific box. But we have put them in other boxes without problems and in our Brushwood Nesters which are about the same size. Best of luck with it.
@@WildlifeWorldUK Thanks it's a bit late now I think ?. Be all ready for next year.
I missed the part on how to make it
Why dose the entrance opening go all the way through?
New England robins I guess are a different species, cause ours don't look like the British version.
Hello absolutely you are right.
Btw New England is a place in America
@@wildlifespotlight511 And I think I heard "London" is in the UK. FYI
@@joequillun7790 You said New England it's just England or UK :-)
UK Robins looks different than US Robins.
Is it big enough for a scrub jay to nest in? What sizes do you have?
La capinere potrebbero essere attratte da questi nidi ?
No
Dead easy to make, costs less than £1 in wood, nails and glue (in total) No need to buy
Agree made lots of these from spare pallets
We very much advocate people making their own nest boxes.
Can baby eating birds get in.?
I have a major problem and it is this : I am plaques by Starlings.
The other problem is this : I have a number of Magpies.
So, how do I build a best that would not be attacked by these other birds ?
Thank you.
Get a Gun!
Starlings, black birds, and grackles like that cheap wild bird food mix. Elimination of that food will help reduce their visitations. They're not as fond of hard shelled foods, like black oil sunflower, and don't like safflower either. (the gun helps too)
@@joequillun7790 You should not be gunning down the birds.
@@mikeoglen6848 It is Legal.
@@joequillun7790 Its Illegal to kill blackbirds.
This looks ideal for magpies and other covids to predate on
Well said David + starlings and squirrels. Far too open from my experience of predators last breeding season.
Yes I can just imagine a magpie getting in there.
It is strange how Robins prefer an open nest hidden away. They make nests anywhere. A friend of mine found a robins nest on an old typewriter which was under a blanket in her conservatory. I have seen robin nests in buckets, teapots, old tins. They make a nest practically anywhere there is shelter. I have a robins nest at the bottom of our garden in the trees somewhere. I have never seen it, but the robin comes out every morning and stands on the same fence post and looks around for a long time. So sweet seeing him every day and then their young in the breeding season.
You could apply mesh fencing to keep bigger birds away! 😶 Protect the porch area with chicken wire!
@@steppib.4598 That is a consideration the 'so called' bird experts should've thought of during the design stage. I can't believe a naturalist of Simon King's knowledge and stature in all things wildlife has aligned himself with this useless product.
What you are calling a robin looks nothing like the robins here in Massachusetts
The red breast robin is a British native bird.
Hi there, this video refers to British robins which look different to those in the US. Hope that helps, thanks.
What you call English is nothing like ours
@@charliesmithers7663 And ours is more famous on the front of cards.
We don't get wooden robins hereabouts. ;-)
I was about to say something like that.
An easy way for cats, martens or magpies to eat the young birds
Robins won't likely use a small birdhouse hole. They and many other birds prefer a semi-open design. Don't blame Simon for how the birds evolved.
Sadly martens don't live here cats cant reach and there isn't any and magpies wont they have enough food.
KOT WEJDZIE
In Canada there is a comedian named Simon King, very funny comedian, sadly he’s too full of himself. Typical for a lot of comedians.