Jeff spotted this nest in the large tree outside our office window. I think he mentioned that it was a warbler's nest, but I could be remembering wrong. I'll double check with him.

We've been watching the three DVD Life of Birds series from Netflix and really enjoying it. One of the interesting segments covers nesting, or "Demands of the egg." And it's not always the bird's own eggs that is putting the demands on it. Take the poor reed warbler and the sneaky common cuckoo.

Yet another species lays an egg in a nest and when that baby hatches (slightly before the real ones) the chick spends its first hours in life pushing the other eggs OUT of the nest. Dirty bird.

I highly recommend the series. Also good is Mr. Attenborough's Life of Mammals.