We have huge problems with starlings nesting in our loaders for about a month during spring. We have to tell our operators to check the engine bay everytime they start one up, because the starlings often place their nests around the turbo or in between the fan and the radiator. They seem to particularly like our yard loader, we can leave that for two hours and they willl be well on the way to having a nest built when we go back. Another loader we have, they always nest in the exhaust pipe, no matter how many times it is used, when we come back a day or so later, there is a nest in the exhaust pipe, which also can be a bit tricky at the start of summer, because the grass is lodged in between the baffles, so then it catches fire. The odd thing is, that these loaders are in different areas, kilometres apart, so different starlings are nesting in them, yet they will put their nests in exactly the same place every year.
Another problem we experienced, was when one of our operators left the machine, he put the keys inside the frame underneath the cab. When he came back a day or so later, the keys were gone. We hunted high and low for those keys, we were accusing him of all sorts of things, then by sheer luck, we found the keys laying on the side of a gravel heap a little way away from the loader, obviously the birds had found them and decided to have a play with them.
RnR.