They offered one bird family a basket. Two moved in.

An account in Homes Without Hands describes martins nesting inside a basket covered with a board. A second pair built above it, inside the handle's arch.

One act of kindness became a two-storey home.

They offered one bird family a basket. Two moved in.

Historical reconstruction of a wicker basket under house eaves. A board divides a nest inside the basket from a second clay nest built above it within the arch of the basket handle.

The two-storey basket reported in the Zoologist and quoted by Wood. Nest layout is reconstructed; birds and exact setting are illustrative.

House martins ( Delichon urbicum meridionale ) at nest, Spain

They offered one bird family a basket. Two moved in.

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