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Help eggs under plastic pot
primrosecottage
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Hi guys can anyone help I've got a concrete basket pot which I use as a container for a 50cm plastic pot .taking out the winter pot to put the summer one in the bottom of the concrete pot is lined with fleece like stuff and in the middle a p perfect round nest with whitish eggs in ..Although there is a gap I can't see how a bird would get in it is about an Inch gap coz the rim of the plastic stops on the handles. Would you get rid of.
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Leave them and see what hatches!
I'm afraid it's not a bird
or am I being paranoid
Yes, it's a birds nest - possibly a robin's or blue tit. I can't enlarge the photo. Put everything back exactly as it was and keep away and keep your fingers crossed.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You may well be right Pansyface - can you zoom in on the photo? My laptop's being awkward today
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
the eggs look the same don't they, i zoomed in and they are the same colour
At last, I've saved the photo and enlarged it ...... yes, Troglodytes troglodytes
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Totally agree, it will be great to have a garden full of Wrens
Thank you sooo much
we've popped the pot back in very carefully and hope she comes back I didn't touch the eggs or nest . Fingers crossed I feel a bit bad as she was possibly sitting nearby watching us 
I do love mother nature and you guys of course 
There's even a subspecies, I believe, called Troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes!
And then of course, there was Reg Presley ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.