Surprise inside the grill

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Surprise inside the grill

Posted: 5/18/2014 2:32:16 PM EDT

I haven't used the grill yet this year. I bought a couple of nice steaks. I went out to heat up the grill, I lifted the lid and the thing is full of dead grass. In the middle is a depression with four little blue eggs in it. You can tell the nest was made with the lid down since the grass is smushed in a curved shape matching the lid. I can't figure out how the birds got in. There is no access from the bottom.

Posted: 5/18/2014 7:12:54 PM EDT

[#1]

Snakes?

Posted: 5/18/2014 7:27:12 PM EDT

[#2]

yeah, Marlin Perkins, the snakes carried the bedding in and set up a nest.

Wrens are able to fit thru a hole smaller than a quarter

Posted: 5/18/2014 7:54:10 PM EDT

[#3]

So did you leave them be?

Posted: 5/18/2014 8:40:01 PM EDT

[#4]

Steak and eggs then???

Posted: 5/18/2014 8:47:49 PM EDT

[#5]

I'm a softy, I left the nest be. Unless its snakes, then I just turn the grill on.

Kidding,

Posted: 5/20/2014 2:49:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Blue eggs are robin eggs generally.

Posted: 5/20/2014 8:42:26 PM EDT

[#7]

Daenerys Targaryen?

If that's the case you will have an auto lighting grill soon

Keep us updated on what hatches!

Posted: 5/20/2014 9:10:47 PM EDT

[#8]

Bet its Starlings. Hate those damn birds.

Go clean out the grill and smash those eggs. Rats with wings as far as I'm concerned.

Posted: 5/21/2014 2:30:50 AM EDT

[#9]

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yeah, Marlin Perkins, the snakes carried the bedding in and set up a nest.

Wrens are able to fit thru a hole smaller than a quarter

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* Snort

Posted: 6/7/2014 4:18:01 PM EDT

[#10]

The eggs hatched. Definitely Starlings. The fiancé is emotionally invested in these birds now. She never saw baby birds before. She sent photos on her phone of her "grandchildren".

Posted: 6/7/2014 8:37:08 PM EDT

[#11]

Must be going around. I opened mine up last weekend and the entire thing was crammed full of dead leaves and grass. Except mine was a fucking rat's nest. Now I have to get the fucking rat piss smell out of it.

Posted: 6/7/2014 8:42:45 PM EDT

[#12]

I get the same problem every spring. I tear out the nest 4 or 5 times because they keep rebuilding it.

Posted: 7/7/2014 1:24:42 AM EDT

[#13]

Cleaning the grill. I knew it would be bad, but not this bad. Never again.

Posted: 7/7/2014 2:32:35 AM EDT

[#14]

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Must be going around. I opened mine up last weekend and the entire thing was crammed full of dead leaves and grass. Except mine was a fucking rat's nest. Now I have to get the fucking rat piss smell out of it.

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Easy start it on fire

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Surprise inside the grill

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