The mama bird had been bugging me for days. I’d walk out of my sewing room and she’d go flying out of the carport . . from somewhere but I never could figure out where.
This afternoon Vince and I were going to go out in the woods and I reached for my boots and out she flew.
Birds in my Boots!
A nest! Five baby birds . . in my boot! In the boots I like.
My boots stay under the carport by the door to the shop. I guess they won’t stay there once these little rascals are gone. No place around here is free of critters it seems.
I do not want a bird nest full of pooping baby birds in my boot! I suggested we take them out of the boot and put them under Louise. She can raise them along with her only baby chick. Vince said no . . we have to leave them there and let them poop all inside my boot grow up and fly away.
Norma says
Just a thought on your propane use. Please check for an underground leak in your copper tubing. When we used that amount of propane, we finally found the leak in the line that run to our generator! Your cook stove wouldn’t use that much even on the high btu burners. Worth checking although not easy to find. Good luck with you boots. Isn’t farm life grand! 🙂
Claudia Wade says
I guess you’ll be ordering a new pair of boots. You won’t want those after the birds have used it as a nursery!
Erin says
Oh my! Now that is country life! What a shocker 🙂 I had to laugh your boot looks so cozy!!! And safe!!!
Toni in Oregon says
I love your boot story! I seldom share things I read with my husband bu this one was “husband worthy”. Cheers! Toni
Sharon says
Last year I some babies who fell out of a nest during a storm. The nest was too high for me to reach, so I took a hanging pot with the coconut liner torn up and put the babies in it. Mama had no problem with me moving the babies. She sat in the pot and fed the babies till they were big enough to leave the next.
Sherrill says
Obviously it’s been awhile since you’ve used the boots! HA I had a Carolina wren lay her eggs and raise her babies in an empty lawn & leaf bag box I’d left on the back porch. I’m sure your boot is much cozier!
LadyBaltimore says
lol, sounds like you need new boots to me.
lynne quinsland says
i had a bird nest in a twig wreath that was attached to the wall of the entry alcove. she laid 5 eggs and sat them for a while, then, decided that she didn’t like the nest on top of the wreath, so she built a new nest in the inside bottom crook of the wreath and laid more eggs….then, decided that the entryway was just too busy after all–i mean geez! there were 7 kids still at home!!! so, she rebuilt AGAIN in the pine tree and hatched out her little family…. anyway, i still have the wreath, WITH both the nests, but it is now hanging INSIDE the entry.
it was a sign to me as i was beginning to go thru my divorce and living without my husband of 31 years in the house. how God cares for the birds of the air, and that even perched, clinging to the side of my house, those little eggs were safe and sound, and that me and my kids would also be cared for by my heavenly father, and that we could make a home anywhere!!!
Carol Campbell says
Your boots wil be fine. The parents carry the poop away daily and keep the nest clean. They should fledge about 2 weeks after hatching so probably won’t be long. Just clean out the nesting material and you are good to go. We have at least 3 sets of eastern bluebirds every year in bluebird boxes and usually a few batches of wrens building in various places, those not necessarily in the birdhouses for them. Love to watch.
Gail in Idaho says
Sorry to hear about your boot, but your story sure gave me a chuckle and your birds in your boot is better than the skunk under my henhouse! Life in the country never gets boring.
Adrienne says
Parent birds will keep the nest clean regularly so your boots will be fine but maybe change the location …..could be a rattlesbake next time!
Adrienne
scrappyhappystarfishy says
I know some fishermen that put fine mesh fastened with a rubber band across the top of their boots when they aren’t wearing them – around here we get recluse spiders in boots and that is an awful bite! I would rather have baby birds than a spider! I think the nest will stay clean and after the babies leave you can just remove the nest and your boot will be fine. Cheers! Evelyn
Carolyn says
Sorry that gave me a great LAUGH!!! who would have though that the bird would build a nest in your boot. too funny.
Darla says
One time when I went outside to get my laundry off the clothesline, I noticed a bird flying out from the hanging clothes.
As Iunpinned my husbands underwear I saw why the bird was there. In the crotch of the underwear was twigs and grass…she was starting to build a nest there!
(The laundry had been up only since that morning before I left for work)
judy s. says
They are so cute and it will be to fun watching them grow, but I would be ordering a new pair of boots and asking the accountant if you can write the old ones off as a donation to a homeless family. Take him a picture.
Judy
Diana in RR Texas says
Better birds than the other possibilities! Thanks for the chuckle!
Dru says
I think you should take the babies and their nest out of your boot and put them in Vince’s boot – lol.:-)
Cathy Stoddard says
Judy, Get a large tub or tote with a good lid and put your foot wear in that if you are going to leave them outside. Keeps the critters & bugs out. Don’t even ask me how I know…..
Vivian says
That is too funny! 🙂 We had a small wren that every year would build a nest in my hanging bag of clothespins. I’d have to quit hanging out clothes till all the babies were born each year, before I could begin hanging clothes out to dry again… They are fun to watch, though!
Helen Koenig1 says
I’m with Cathy Stoddard on this!
I lived on a farm in IL – and had those long boots that sometimes farmers use when the mud is especially deep (and it was!)
Anyway I went to put the things on – and inadvertently knocked over one of my boots (because I’m a klutz!) – and out swooshed a baby copperhead. Baby copperheads are everybit as poisonous as adult ones are – but are a heck of a lot faster – or at least it sure seems that way! So there I was dancing around on the deck in my sock feet trying to get OUT of the way of the baby copperhead – when it fell through the gap between the decking boards – onto my car roof below (and no, I never did find it after that!)
Needless to say – I was NOT too fond of putting those things on my feet again for a LONG time! (I filled them with water – and rinsed them out again and again – figuring that anything LIVE in there would float out – hopefully!) Eventually I learned to KEEP a tote box type of thing handy up there for boots, etc.
Mary Jo says
I went to get a pruner out of my garden tool bag that stays in a garage the is shut most of the time. To my surprise out flew mama bird and in my tool bag I found a next and 3 eggs. I moved her nest into some of the nearby shrubbery, but never saw her or the nest or eggs again. Who knows where it went!
We also have to be sure to put our motorcycle helments in the cabinet in the garage because one year we had a bird who was determined to build a next in my husband’s helmet. We probably dumped the beginnings of about 5 nests out of the helment before we decided to store them in a cabinet in the garage!