You Need More Than An Edge

Sometimes you need more than just an edge.  Sometimes what you need is a whole lot of space!

Take for instance this futile attempt by some birds to build a nest on our front porch.

I guess they tried and tried, but couldn’t get a nest started on such a skinny bit of an edge.   Maybe they thought because some other birds had done it successfully –

– that they could too.  In fact, the first set of birds have a second set of babies in this nest now.

Unfortunately for the bad nest builders (and me!), they didn’t take into account the other birds had a bit more edge to work with in that corner.

Now I get to clean up  the mess they left behind from their sorry attempt at nest building.  I sure hope they did a better job the next place they tried or there aren’t going to be any babies from that couple of birds.

Come to think of it, maybe that would be just as well.