Bird watching, twitching and birding are all pursuits that have not generally been associated with cupid’s arching arrow.
Similarly, if you’re a bird (the feathered kind) then it’s the time of year when the mind turns to courting and finding that all important nesting site.
Whilst the bad news is that birding watching pursuits aren’t getting any sexier, for the capital’s birds it’s a little different as thanks to 51% Studio and the Architecture Foundation, there are plenty of new places birds can raise their urban brood.
It’s all thanks to 51% studio’s discovery that the standard hollow block used to build some of London’s most celebrated architecture is made from concrete and recycled wood shavings. Whilst this may seem unremarkable, to our winged companions, wood shavings really are the stuff of love because when used as a nest box lining, it’s proven to fledge more young than any other.
In answer to the plight of our native sparrows, wrens and other species that were once familiar sights on our island, now sadly and mysteriously, in decline, these ’love nests’ (groan) are being installed at various locations around London’s Bankside.
Intended as a permanent legacy for the London Festival of Architecture, the website to accompany the project launched, appropriately, on Valentine’s Day.
Even better is that if this news inspires you to take up the binoculars and follow our feathered friends, then you’ll be quite pleased to learn that you will earn the title of ’dude’. Now if that doesn’t make birding sexy, I don’t know what does.
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