Hummingbird builds nest on hook hanging in noisy Victoria welding shop

Dave Clarke's noisy welding shop in Victoria is the last place you might expect to find a hummingbird nest, but that's exactly what he found one recent morning.

“It’s right in the middle of the shop,” Dave says, pointing to a chain hanging from the ceiling with a hook at the end.

“On the crane hook.”

Sometime during the night, a bird had started building a nest in the curve of the dangling hook.

“She must have woke up in the morning and gone, ‘Oh my God!'” Dave laughs. “‘What have I done?!’”

Trucks are rumbling. Metal is clanking. Sparks are flying. This is no nurturing nursery.

But the hummingbird was undeterred, and eventually manufactured a pair of products the left the shop’s human welders in awe.

“How the heck did a little bird lay that big of an egg?” Dave laughs. “A couple days later there was another one!”

Once the babies started hatching, thanks to their mother's unrivalled work ethic, they never stopped growing.