Last year Blackbirds built a nest in the hedging on top of the wall only about 4 feet from mams back door.
When the babies were flushed out of the nest, the dog must have got one and mam came out to dog in the shed with dead baby bird. She said she could not look at the murderer for a few days.
Lo and behold, birds came back this year. First attempt she scuppered the nest, said it was too stressful, but when the birds built a second nest in the exact same spot she had not got the heart to remove it having watched mother bird tirelessly building it. This year three little blue speckled eggs, but only one hatched.
Dog had to be kept indoors and only let out the back on a leash when it came near the time for the fledgling to be evicted from nest. Happened this week, bird fluttered around the garden for I think best part of a couple of days and then flew away successfully.
Result. It has been brilliant watching the parents come and feed the bird. They were so close to the house you could see the eggs(then baby bird) from about 2 foot away.