A Bed of Nails: She Makes Me Wait

Urban crows and Magpies are also tough beasties. Some of these corvid birds construct nests, almost entirely from strips of the long metal spikes, often attached to buildings to deter birds (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests). Museum workers in Rotterdam and Leiden found the spikes used as nesting material in constructions recovered from trees in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium). They have also found online images of birds using of similar, unpromising building materials in other countries (including Scotland). Members of the crow family are very adaptable.