Nests and the boys next door

Its very distressing when you watch a blackbird all day, fetch and carry bits and pieces to make her nest. She worked from early light till dusk last night and now today the boys from next door are pushing their way in and destroying all her hard work!!

Those boys are no longer cute kittens but rather a powerful, muscly lean gang just looking for a bit of fun.

I tell myself its better to scare off the blackbirds now rather than when the eggs come along or even worse once the chicks hatch but I also wonder if there isn't any kind of contraption I could make to keep the nest safe. I also wonder about keeping cats even though I love my own to bits.

So here we are in Spring once again with all its worries for me about nesting and baby birds.