A Marton woman is amazed a pair of swallows have hatched a nest of chicks in a Christmas wreath on her back door.
Clare Wishart said the wreath stays up all year but this time it has the family of birds as extra decoration, and they have stayed put for weeks as the door is open and closed many times during the day.
She knew the birds were about on October 14, the day of the big storm, when she opened her back door and a swallow blew in.
"It spent the night on top of a big painting in the lounge. I let it out the next morning.
"The following day I opened the windows in the morning to lots of chirping and then a nest was built."