A traffic cone has become the must-have des-res for a family of great tits, who moved into the red and white object in the main driveway of the grounds of Holt Hall, Norfolk.
It has a bird’s eye view of open fields and its cost won’t dent anyone’s nest egg – as long as you don’t mind a little road noise.
Chris Blake, head gardener at the field studies centre, lifted the cone to cut the grass and found nine eggs in a nest.
‘I’ve known tits to nest in walls and other places you wouldn’t expect before but this is certainly the most unusual nest I have found,' Mr Blake said.
'The parents have been going in and out and one of them was up in the tree making a noise when I moved the cone.
'We kept quiet about it because if we put up a sign everybody would have been nosing in.'
Two weeks later, after a bit of tender loving care from their doting mother, they all hatched into healthy chicks.
The birds have now flown the impromptu nest, leaving the cone free for its next residents to move in - but Mr Blake might just move it to a quieter area so he can mow the lawn.
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