House renovation vs bird

[Tweetybye]

Currently doing building work, and just discovered a starling nesting on the wall due to be knocked through. Builder says he’d take care of it. Implying he’d move to neighbouring tree and let them ‘sink or swim’.

Technically illegal but cant say I’m too bothered given the number of rabbits, pheasants hit with the car, ant nests and other bugs destroyed over the years.

Curious to how many people would actually stop building work for months, delay kitchen, window, door installations, delay electrician/plumbers on a whim all down to a single bird? Shedding any moral postulating I’m curious to what people would actually do in this situation if it was them.

YABU: stop work immediately
YANBU: what bird? Leave the builder be

I was going to ask the exact same question. It is your attitude OP, it stinks.

Laws are not there for you to break because you think you are too important to uphold them.

You are asocial

Our builders found a fresh blackbird‘s nest in the barn we were converting. The project manager asked us what we wanted to do, but they’re all country lads, and it was clear what their feelings were from the extensive list he presented of ‘other stuff we could be getting on with instead’. They got on with the ‘other stuff’ for a couple of weeks, the chicks hatched and fledged, we now have a family of blackbirds in our garden and the nest is framed for luck above the door - we weren’t the only family to call this place home.

I’m just being honest and not fake pretending to care which what is what a lot of people do.

At least I’ve never set up a fake account to deliver devastating news to a stranger I had no business getting involved in.

id rather have a stinking attitude than behave in a cowardly manner.