Garden centre squatters

Hi Fran... fabulous .. I hope the baby robins do well. :o)

Ha ha....what a strange place for a nest!

We had similar sign in our garden center and the area was blocked off from people wondering around. I do not know which bird was nesting there. My hanging baskets are often taken by Juncos to nest and I have to let the plants to die :-)

This was a month or so ago, never occured to me to go back and check, or to visit their website to find out. I would suppose that the babes have flown by now.

I've heard of robins nesting in kettles wedged into hedges etc, but this is a totally new one on me. Surrounded by people for most of the day, or the noise of people. Wonder if the GC people put out food? only just thought of that. but maybe the plants attracted enouch insects to keep the family fed.

Klahanie, I never thought of hanging baskets being used for nests before! do you have any pictures? Sadly I've got nowhere to hang baskets, even for flowers.

I think that is wonderful Fran, you often see signs like that at these sort of places and I think the majority of people take notice so as not to disturb the nests.

we went as close as we dared, maybe a bit closer than we should, but the closest we actually got was my friend's hand a yard above the flowers as she took the photo on her phone - and that was only a couple of seconds. The nesting bird must be used to distant noise, even close-distant.

it's great that people put up signs like this, and go out of their way to give nature a chance. Can't imagine this sort of thing happening a decade or so ago!

Ahhh! So glad you were able to get asclose as this and glad your friend was able to photograph it for you.

lol for me to have seen it clearly I'd have had to get into bed with it! I had to wait for the photos to see if she'd actually got the bird, so to speak

Mother robin would have very surprised if you had....

and she'd very likely have let me know about it in no uncertain terms! and the GC staff would have finished me off

Is that the one near Shrewsbury?
Not been since they moved it up the road a little way from the old site if so.

YESA, IT'S THE REVAMPED Shrewsbury ONE, NOW SET BACK OFFTHEROAD - damn this new keyboard and caps lock!! There was building going on at the old site so I suppose houses are going up, or are up now

Think it is going to be a Waitrose supermarket.

wouldn't be surprised! still a bit far for me to access: if I go by the road it'd be nearly an hour. I can cut across the golf course, but can't see me coming back that way with bags of shopping!

Went back last year with a friend [differnt one]. the garden centre has been moved back quite a bit and there's some buildings where it used to be, but as we drove in i didn't get much of a look. The garden centre is more "art and craft centre" now, sigh.

Seems to keep happening. Bridgmere in Cheshire used to be an excellent garden centre, now its more like a shopping mall...

I suppose they have to get the "casual gardener" in somehow ... but a whole mini-shop of scented canndles??

lol and "casual gardener" is an oxymoron!