You’re right! a different perspective indeed!
The birds lost their nest yet again today...that makes it easily ten attempts at building their home. Though this time the nest was further along so I thought perhaps sturdy enough to withstand the wind....It’s just on such a narrow strip their work starts hanging about 6 inches off the rail and the wind catches that and pulls the nest off.
Put up a bird house with a big front hole, or maybe a three-sided one.
They’re famous for doing other birds out of nice spaces like that - they are especially damaging to bluebirds, that way.
You could probably rough one up out of a few small pieces of wood that would provide protection from the wind, and hammer it up somewhere near where they are trying to nest.
That is, if you really want them around....:-)