currently getting a new roof
and heard chirps coming from an overhang last night. I got a ladder and found a small hole where some of the wood had rotted away about the size of a baseball. Listened closely and sure enough there were baby birds chirping. I broke the hole open large enough to get my hand in there and a bird flew out. Feeling around I could feel a big nest and I knew that my decking was going to get replaced and the nest would likely get destroyed. I took a hanging plant pot & moved the nest along with 4 blind/bald/ugly baby birds to the hanging pot so that they wouldn't get killed during today's roof installation. The mother bird couldn't find them because they went to sleep & weren't chirping; I was afraid that I fated them to a cold starving death by moving the nest. Last night around 10:00 I went to check and the mother still hadn't come back, so I brought them inside from the cold so they wouldn't freeze to death. As they warmed up, they chirped a bit, & went to sleep so I locked up the family dog and let the baby birds sleep inside on the Kitchen table. This morning, I woke up around 6:00 to starving baby birds chirping so I put them back outside hoping their mother would find them.
By 6:15, their bellies were on their way to being full with both the mother & father bird cranking away at finding bugs/worms/whatever and they are now safely hiding away from danger in a hanging plant pot with the mother close by. I was going to take pictures of them, but didn't think of it when I had them down.
Also, the whole "mothers will reject baby birds if you've handled them is bullshit.