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

Not really. Refusing to pay a TV licence doesn't affect another species.

Wouldn't trust any of the builder's wiring or waste disposal, though. He doesn't care about the Law, so why should he care about fitting a correctly rated cable when a bit of extension flex will do? Why should he care about taking the waste to a disposal place when there's a handy verge on the edge of a nature reserve to dump it in (with something holding your name and address so you are held responsible)?

Caring about wildlife and delivering quality workmanshop aren't mutually inclusive. I'm sure there are plenty of bird loving tradies that deliver poor quality work and similarly a tradie that couldn't care less about birds is more than capable of delivering high quality work.

Fortunately our builder is a close family friend who has completed multiple jobs for us to a very high standard.

At present the nest is undisturbed as other week is being completed. Ideally want to remove the affected area through in a weeks time, to avoid delay. Google says starlings take roughly 21 days to fledge but I'm sure I heard tweeting in the area months ago, so unless they have multiple broods I'm confused as to why there's still tweeting.

Again crazy how not caring about birds leads to an assumption that a builder will fly tip or have zero pride in safety or quality of work? That's like saying people that smoke weed are going to end up injecting heroin. Lol.

It's the deciding which Laws to follow that is the risk, not the rest of the probably entirely made up situation.