AN exchange student got more than he bargained for after picking up a second-hand car only to find a bird's nest with five eggs in it under the bonnet.

Takaki Mimura, who is on an exchange visit to Lane End from Tokyo, bought his new blue motor off his brother-in-law's friend in London last week.

But when the 29-year-old went to change the windscreen fluid on Wednesday he twigged that there was more under the bonnet than just metal and oil.

Mr Mimura, a student at the Euro-Japanese Exchange Foundation, Church Road, Lane End, explained: "I hired a car and my wife and I went together to pick the car up. I drove it back to Lane End.

"I'd had it just a week when I went to fill the windscreen washer fluid. When I lifted the bonnet I found the nest and called my tutor who came to look at it. It was unbelievable."

The nest contained five eggs and was lodged below the windscreen fluid bottle.

But sadly Mr Mimura is sure the baby birds in the eggs are dead because the shells are cold.

He added: "At the moment the nest is in the college lounge."

A spokesman for the exchange foundation said: "It was just the most amazing thing. How did it get there?"

But the nest, as they say, is history.