It would seem that a bird in Intake has been recycling unwanted tab ends to help line its nest.

Christine Fry, 67, of Crecy Avenue in Intake discovered the bird's imaginative nest-making material when her grandson Archie found a nest that had fallen from a tree in her garden.

The nest is lined with around 40 cigarette ends which are artistically woven with twigs and other more standard nest-making material.

Christine said: "At the bottom of the nest the bird had made a mosaic all the way round with cigarette ends.

"For them to do something like this, makes me think are they trying to tell us something - to stop smoking or recycle?

"I just couldn't believe it."

Claire Thomas, a wildlife adviser from the RSPB said: "Sometimes the odd piece of man-made material may work its way into the nest of an opportunistic bird, but cigarette butts are certainly the more unusual.

"It may be that this bird has found a regular supply of these discarded objects and has used them accordingly."