Horrors!! I had a bird’s nest up over my front door back in Illinois, and I thought it was the neatest thing! One day I took a step ladder out and got up there to look and see how many eggs there were... and I saw that the whole thing was crawling with these mites. I was freaked. I got down quick and never went near it again.
There's one over my garden shed .. hmmm. Silly me, I never thought the mites would travel outside the nest.
YIKES.
I have a guest apartment at my house, and every year birds build nests above the door. We already had one build this year, and when her young flew the coop, another bird comes in and occupies the nest.
I always leave it there, don’t want to kill the baby birds, but it does make a mess (bird poop), which I just keep cleaned up.
I’m going to relocate that nest as soon as these babies fly off. Ewwww.