Nest in a bike? Saddle do nicely!
TO some it was just a rusty bicycle ready for the scrapheap. But for a mother wren, it became the perfect home for her fledgling family.
The enterprising bird built a nest out of grass and twigs inside the saddle to house her four chicks.
The happy result was captured on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in Port Ramsay on the Isle of Lismore, western Scotland.
Teenie Wilson, 60, said: ‘My neighbours told me to have a look in their garden because some wrens had built a nest in one of their old bikes. I was quite astounded to discover that there were chicks in the saddle too.’
Mrs Wilson, who runs a shop and post office with her husband David, 63, said it took her an hour to get her pictures.
‘Unfortunately I could only capture three of the chicks because they kept burying away in the saddle, but there were actually four of them.
‘I didn’t want to distress the mother so I left after an hour.’
The pictures were taken in June and the wrens are thought to have now moved on.