So I work at a school.
Yesterday I was in the IT suite doing some decorating and could hear a quiet constant chirping that I took to be a dodgy computer fan. After a while it started to annoy me to I tried to identify which computer it was. Eventually I realised it was coming from the A/C unit but when I turned the mains off, th noise persisted - lightbulb moment - birds!
I popped round to a classroom that has a window looking over to the outer wall and lo and behold the hole in the brick that lets the pipe work in was unsealed and a fair size. To confirm my suspicion I saw a blue Tit (I think - nippy wee flyer!!) fly in and out a few times.
So anyway, today I'm working away still and now enjoying the noise of the chirping. At the end of the day I noticed a couple of honey bees (well, definitely not bumble!) in the room by an open window. I encouraged them out then noticed a few flying around outside - a nest! I wondered if they were in the eaves so when I packed up to go home went outside and had a look. They were flying around the same wall but to my surprise they were entering and exiting and generally flying around the same hole!!
Really frustrating and quite a surprise due to the timing of only realising the birds were there yesterday and the bees have moved in today.
I wondered if the parent bird would still enter but standing and watching a while I saw it attempt a few fly bys but would soon retreat.
I guess the birds will be goners now which is a real shame but I can't see anyway that both species could survive an intervention! I am resigned to the fact that occurrences like this must happen in nature all the time. Sad, all the same.
Yesterday I was in the IT suite doing some decorating and could hear a quiet constant chirping that I took to be a dodgy computer fan. After a while it started to annoy me to I tried to identify which computer it was. Eventually I realised it was coming from the A/C unit but when I turned the mains off, th noise persisted - lightbulb moment - birds!
I popped round to a classroom that has a window looking over to the outer wall and lo and behold the hole in the brick that lets the pipe work in was unsealed and a fair size. To confirm my suspicion I saw a blue Tit (I think - nippy wee flyer!!) fly in and out a few times.
So anyway, today I'm working away still and now enjoying the noise of the chirping. At the end of the day I noticed a couple of honey bees (well, definitely not bumble!) in the room by an open window. I encouraged them out then noticed a few flying around outside - a nest!
I wondered if they were in the eaves so when I packed up to go home went outside and had a look. They were flying around the same wall but to my surprise they were entering and exiting and generally flying around the same hole!!Really frustrating and quite a surprise due to the timing of only realising the birds were there yesterday and the bees have moved in today.
I wondered if the parent bird would still enter but standing and watching a while I saw it attempt a few fly bys but would soon retreat.
I guess the birds will be goners now which is a real shame but I can't see anyway that both species could survive an intervention! I am resigned to the fact that occurrences like this must happen in nature all the time. Sad, all the same.
