Bird Nest In My Siding With Grackles
If they build near your home that might mean materials you d rather they didn t use.
Bird nest in my siding with grackles. A single female can lay four to seven eggs in a single mating season. Females typically build the nest with males sometimes helping or making repairs. The boat tailed and great tailed grackles as well as red winged and yellow headed blackbirds nest in marshes and aren t usually in residential areas in summer. The female will lay 4 to 7 eggs that are pale greenish brown with dark marks.
Throughout the east and midwest this big blackbird is a very familiar species on suburban lawns striding about with deliberate steps as it searches for insects. Common grackles build bulky nests in conifer trees dense spruce or other similar small trees. This coupled with the fact that they are not at all picky as to. I can t see if there are any bugs or any other reason that would attract this bird to my home.
The nest is made of grass twigs reeds and mud. My wife said she saw the second hole about a year ago and thought it was a dirt spot on the siding. Another good choice is a feeder with an adjustable weight activated perch. Doesn t seem to be making a nest.
The inside is lined with finer materials. Upon inspection of other areas i found another hole similar to the first one. The nest can take as little as a week to as long as six weeks to finish. Birds have been known to damage insulation shingles siding and other housing materials to grab nesting materials.
The common grackle is a scrappy bird if there ever were one. Common grackles often nest in small colonies and several males may perch in adjacent treetops to sing their creaking grating songs. Rarely common grackles nest in unusual places such as birdhouses woodpecker holes cliff crevices barns and still occupied nests of osprey and great blue herons. You can find the nest located in a shrub or tree 3 to 30 feet above the ground or water.
For instance birds build their nests out of any nearby material they can get their beaks on. It will close when a heavy bird like a grackle lands on it.