Jay,
A grill cover would attract squirrels and they would nibble on it too so you would have to buy a new cover next year, oh and maybe even chew on the cord and you would have to buy a new BBQ! said all in one breath!

Nice, Angel — hard to believe, but that internets-ism is 100% appropriate here.

OMGWTFBBQ! So sweet

I’m so glad to see someone else’s grill in as bad shape as mine. I don’t have a nest but many generations of spiders have found it to be a spacious, comfortable home… possibly July 4th will motivate me to clean it. Then again, probably not…

For a minute I was like…..whaaaaaaaaaa…somebody stole my pic. Birds did this exact same thing on our back porch in our grill and I took a pic.

I agree – we need updates! I want to see the crafty parents as well as the babies when they pop out. This is sooo funny!

¨One year my dad opened the girl after a long winter and we found that…¨

Ummm, Joe? I hope your dad is an MD. And I don´t even want to know what the girl had been doing with a robin.

Ahn. Great big nest, three little tiny eggs nestled therein….

Thanks! We do not have cats, just 3 dogs. It was in a rose bush, tall enough that the dogs could not see. They could smell it though and were quite interested in the bush for the last few days.

I didn’t get many picks of the mama bird- I was trying to be careful to keep the blinds closed while mama was there so she wouldn’t get spooked. In pic 1201 you can see mom show up. She saw me and flew away without feeding them that time.

Actually, those aren’t robin eggs, they’re starling eggs. At least according to my Dad, whose barbecue that is. They had lots of time to build the nest, because it doesn’t get warm enough to BBQ in Newfoundland until late in the spring. (Kat J, who sent this pic in, is my sister.)