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Hatch of the day

Birds tend to nest in trees, hedges and sometimes even chimneys, but a family of pigeons in Darlington have decided to set up home under the bonnet of a work van. The pied wagtail parents built the nest next to the radiator of a Northumbrian Water van, despite the vehicle regularly been driven 25 miles a day. Productions operator at Northumbrian Water and pigeon fancier John Wilson noticed the birds. He said: “We have obviously been driving very carefully as we haven’t broken the eggs! The warmth under the bonnet must also have stopped the eggs getting cold when the parents couldn’t sit on the nest. “We take the van out most days but always park it in the same place in the yard and you would have thought they would have abandoned the nest when it kept disappearing. “The birds have struggled this far and now we have found the nest we have decided to help them finish rearing the young by not using the vehicle.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .