Be careful when watering hanging baskets

[BlueKota]

Bird just scared the crap out of me. Was watering my hanging geranium basket and didn't realize the bird was in it. Apparently it got sprayed, flapped it's wings, flew off to a nearby tree, and kept screeching at me. Not that it understood me but I told it to shut up because I wasn't too pleased with the situation either. 🤣

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. Haha! Surprise!

Do check for eggs or other obvious nesting activity, though, so you don’t inadvertently give babies a dousing.

[BlueKota]

5. I will check from now on.

[House of Roberts]

2. My problem watering hanging baskets is wind.

I'd rather water the basket than me.

[BlueKota]

3. LOL.

Definitely.

[magicarpet]

4. Is there a little cozy bird nest in the plant now ?

Equally scared the poop out of the bird as it did you.

Tap the bottom of the plant container before you dump the water in - to alert the bird Hurricaine BlueKota has arrived and coming through.

[BlueKota]

6. I will have to check for a nest.

Good idea about tapping bottom of container.

[magicarpet]

7. Put a few kitchen eggs in the planter and freak out da widdle birdie.

She will se the size of the eggs and say what,... am I suppose to sit on those monsters and hatch them ?

That would be about 200X the size of her standard eggs.

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Put you phone out in the hanging planter, stand it up and lean it against the inside wall ofvyhe planter, then click this link. It is a widdle birdie movie for the litte runt.
Be sure to leave a little bowl of popcorn should da widdle birdie require movie snacks

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[AllaN01Bear]

8. we had hanging pots on our eaves in the patio. 1 day when mom was watering, she heard this noise e.

it was a baby bird . there after she stoped watering that basket untill the bird fledged .

[BlueKota]

10. There is a nest with eggs.

I am not going to spray basket anymore but water around the nest with a bottle while Momma is out, so plant doesn't die.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. good ider.

[Conjuay]

9. Along the same lines

Their is a Reddit group that exists just to show how terrible mourning doves are at building nests. They'll have a picture of an egg and a few sticks sitting on top of an AC unit - stuff like that.
There have been so many pictures of doves in planters, in flower boxes, you wonder how the species survives!
But yours does not sound like a dove; I can't imagine one of them scolding you for getting wet!

[BlueKota]

11. Pretty sure it's a finch.

We do have 3 mourning doves on our deck. I have never seen one of their nests. I will have to look around for them.

[bigtree]

12. I always put a few u-shaped plant stakes in there at the beginning to discourage them now

...careful of clothes on the line, too.

Found more than one nest getting started in my jeans.