Birds nests

Is there anything more beautiful? I'm pretty inspired by birds nests at the moment.

Did you know The Natural History Museum has a whole collection of birds nests at their sister site in Tring, Hertfordshire?

Tring is where the majority of their bird collections are held. Sadly I didn't take a picture of their nest collection, which was beautiful and contained some nests from birds which are now extinct. I did however take a quick picture of some Toucans I asked to see when I had a look at the Museum's collections:

Nice.

Anyway, here are some birds nest inspired finds from Etsy that I've got my eye on:

Nest in a vintage teacup  

         

A recycled birds nest as a decoration

A silver birds nest

Birds nest in a bottle

Place Markings for summer

More lovely decorations for the home

A beautiful vintage page

And don't forget to visit Tring if you get the chance! One of the curators might even give you a tour....

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/tring/