Some days are quiet news days, no cats up trees or other riveting news dramas.

But there are always birds up trees, as the SunLive newsroom was reminded this week, when our attention (on a quiet news day) was drawn to a pair of blackbirds who decided the tree outside the newsroom window was a great place to build a home and raise a family.

It's not every day that nature comes to the front door.

So with a discreet camera, we captured some of the domestic events of the nest.

It might not be as high profile as the oystercatchers on the main beach, but a slice of nature nevertheless.

We hope to report on the first flight in following episodes.

We're pretty sure it's the blackbird, one important clue being it's black.

Although the female of the species is dark brown with lighter brown or grey on the throat.

Blackbirds breed as solitary, monogamous pairs nesting species, nesting between August and February, with a September – November peak in most localities, says the NZ Birds Online website.

Males establish territories from about April-May.

Nests are usually well concealed by foliage in the forks of shrubs or trees 3 to 10 metres above the ground and are a well-constructed woven bowl of grass, small twigs, moss, fragments of plastic bags, dead leaves and may be lightly lined with mud.