Bird's Nest in a Helmet

[Mudbug]

Here is a nest being built in my helmet.

http://kjun.smugmug.com/photos/138824987-M.jpg

I have a mpg of the birds flying in and out of the helmet but I cannot upload to smugmug and it cannot be attached here.

[henzilla]

HAHAHA...and appropriately in CAMPFIRE! I had better go look before making too much fun of that!

[bubbagazoo]

I would take that to be a message from which ever higher power you ascribe to to get a new helmet.:)

[BouncinBob]

One spring I picked up my wife's helmet to find the mice had used the lining and foam to make a nice sheltered nest.

[kbasa]

I have a mpg of the birds flying in and out of the helmet but I cannot upload to smugmug and it cannot be attached here.

Youtube, baby. Free, too! :thumb

[john1691]

me thinks you don't ride often enough! :)

[Mudbug]

This is not a old helmet that was sitting around. It is less than a year old. I had stopped in Luckenbach. I placed my helmet on my gas tankapproximately 20 minutes before I found the birds busy building a nest. People were walking by.

I wish I could upload the mpg file.

[Mudbug]

me thinks you don't ride often enough! :)

15,000 a year is not often enough. :brow

I don't think anyone understands that this occurred while I was on a ride and stopped in Luckenbach for approx 30 minutes. During that time, the birds were flying in and out of my helmet which I placed on my bike's gas tank. People were walking by. I had to distrub their nest building to leave.

Iwish I could upload the mpg file.

[Belquar]

email me the file. I will upload it to YouTube and then we can post it here. It will be a learning experience for us both. I have never uploaded to YouTube before.

[Mudbug]

Here is the mpg. I took your suggestion. I uploaded it to youtube.

Bird's Building A Nest In My Helmet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJvb0rrb5Ic)

[wezul]

Quick on the draw down there, aren't they?

Oh and "Hi" from Long Island this week. I feel like Brad! (not)

[dancogan]

Oh, that's just a great video! The still picture is neat, too, but the video really shows the "process." :clap

[BubbaZanetti]

hahha
that vid was great!

how long had your helmet been sitting there???

[Easy]

Great video!!! Good thing it wasn't a Mockingbird. You could have caused a riot!

Easy :german

“I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.”
George W. Bush

[riderR1150GSAdv]

Very cool video:thumb . Hmmm these birds are faster than some homebuilders I know.....:banghead

[Belquar]

Great video!!! Good thing it wasn't a Mockingbird. You could have caused a riot!

Easy :german

“I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.”
George W. Bush

"I Predict A Riot"

Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible either
A friend of a friend he got beaten
He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Would never of happened to Smeaton
An old leodensian
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I tried to get to my taxi
The man in a tracksuit attacks me
He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble round with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen
they're not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
That doesn't want to be out there
Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
That doesn't want to be out there
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot

[SheRidesABeemer]

That is crazy funny, building a nest at a gas stop!! :D

[Mar]

Sheesh. I'm such a sucker for birds, my bike and helmet would probably be there until the little ones had left the nest. :)

[Crow18]

What can you say? Birds dig Beemers.

http://homepage.mac.com/ericgibbs/abuse/imagery/road_kinglet.jpg

I got this picture a few days ago, in Port Angeles, WA. We were packing up to catch the morning ferry to Vancouver Island, and I walked down to the ferry terminal to buy tickets and find out what the deal was for putting bikes on the boat. On my way back to the hotel, I found this little guy sitting in the road next to a storefront with a big plate-glass window, obviously stunned.

He's a Gold-Crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa). We get them in our neighborhood frequently, and we usually get at least one a summer smacking into a window. They don't move very fast, so they mostly just get dazed. Usually all it takes is about 5-10 minutes of the bird collecting its wits in a safe spot (i.e. not in the road) before it moves on to the next activity. I carried this one the two blocks back to the bikes and let him catch his breath on my handgrip. I snapped a couple of pictures, went back to packing up, and eventually he flew away.