{"id":4484,"date":"2015-05-11T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:45:17","slug":"robin-nesting-in-outbuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Robin nesting in outbuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a room of our small outbuilding where we keep our chicken feed, there was evidence of a nest built in an open cupboard along with bird droppings concentrated to a few places. So, one evening I set up my wildlife camera (set to 6-second time-lapse mode) to see what is happening and what birds are involved:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"robin  entering cupboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100297w.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although most of the time there was not much to see (possibly due to the long time interval) I did catch a couple of shots during daylight; the first (shown above) shows a robin about to enter the cupboard. The nest is in the far corner but it is in too much shadow to see it.<\/p>\n<p>This shot shows the bird on top of the cupboard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4487 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"robin on cupboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100298w.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>In these views you can just make out some straw forming part of the nest. The real surprise was when the camera switched to night vision mode and turned on its infra-red lamp:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4488 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"night-time robin entering cupboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100462w.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Here you can see the robin ready to enter the\u00a0 cupboard but what shows well is its mate sitting on its nest ready to greet it. When we previously looked at the nest to see if it was occupied there was no sight of the bird &#8211; it must of crouched well down to avoid being seen. This next shot shows the two birds together:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4485 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"robin with mate\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/w15_100463w.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am in the process of creating a short movie of the robin\u00a0 sitting on its nest during the early evening and early morning when the camera was operating in night-time mode &#8211; watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>I have also set the camera up in a different position tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a room of our small outbuilding where we keep our chicken feed, there was evidence of a nest built in an open cupboard along with bird droppings concentrated to a few places. So, one evening I set up my wildlife camera (set to 6-second time-lapse mode) to see what is happening and what birds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robin nesting in outbuilding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,78,67,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-night","category-wildlife","category-wildlife-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}