Identifying a Nest

[Eve]

I found this earlier and wondered if anyone could tell what kind of nest it is?

It's quite small and I've not seen anything come in and out of it. I think it might have been there a while.

A wasp maybe or is it too small for that?

http://tinypic.com/r/ibetsh/6

[snags]

Has it got a small hole in one end?

[Eve]

It looks like it might be a hole to the bottom left hand corner of it on the photo. The other side looks like the back of it as smooth over.

I didn't want to get too close to find it wasn't actually empty and discover what was in it in a more painful way :)

[snags]

I suggest you go and poke it with a stick ;-p

I reckon a wasp of some sort.

[Prudie]

I also think wasp nest

[Eve]

Haha, no chance :)

I'm hoping it's nothing evil given it's proximity to my open window......

[Eve]

Looks like a wasp then. That was my first though but wasn't sure as it's pretty small, maybe a lonely wasp or they like it snug...or campflaged behind the pipe so easy to hide in the hood :)

[seadogg]

I have cleared a few paper wasp nests from people's garden sheds and it has a resemblance to them but a bit exposed compared with the others.

[Eve]

It is fairly exposed, especially right by a window which my two cats (and spare one) are in and out of all the time and by where a load of wheelie bins are stored.

[tenrec]

It looks like a wasps' nest. Keep an eye on it.

[Eve]

Thanks Tenrec, I will...at a distance :)

[percypineapple]

saw one like it in a loft, just one large wasp hovering about around it. also seen the same looking thing like a chinese lantern in a loft, as big as a football, a beautiful work of art, and luckily it was devoid of the wasp family. so, i would agree that it is probably a wasp of some type, not the common one.

[RATTER15]

Almost certainly a wasp nest that has fallen from something higher up as it is lying on its side.

[RATTER15]

and "almost" certainly dead!

[jomifl]

I agree with Ratter, it looks like a wasp's nest. From how it appears to be jammed between the pipe and the wall I would say that a wasp could not have built it there as it wouldn't have had enough leg room so it must have fallen there.