What to do if a bird makes a nest on your speed bag platform

[meg]

Hi, I've been lurking here for awhile (wow, what a great community!), but now I have an unusual problem and need some ideas. My speed bag is mounted to the outside wall of my log cabin, on the front porch. Sometime this week a bird built a nest on top of my platform, right on top of one of the sandbags. I don't really know what to do because I fear the vibration might be too much for the nest and I don't want to harm any lives, but I also don't want to give up my speed bag! Any suggestions from the crowd? Thanks so much!

[Tim]

Are there eggs in it yet? If not, just take the nest down... they'll build another one. Once you take it down, put something up there to keep them away... a rubber snake maybe? Not sure if that really works, but I think birds would fall for that trick.

If there are already bird eggs I suggest you don't touch it.