To: Dysart
Can anyone identify this egg I found outside near the shrub where the Brown Thrashers built the nest? I suspect it might be a Brown Thrasher egg. If so, they abandoned the nest after laying the eggs. But it could be another, just not sure.
814 posted on
04/30/2005 10:22:09 AM PDT by
Dysart
To: Dysart
Don't know about thrashers, but some birds will push 'unhatchable' eggs out of the nest.
I remember reading a paper on it, and even the scientist couldn't figure out how the birds knew something was wrong with the egg.
816 posted on
04/30/2005 10:40:51 AM PDT by
MamaTexan
(I'd rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong)
To: Dysart
I just looked up on Google images. That didn't help. Other bird eggs come up. LOL. Have you seen the parents? I know the Robins, here last year, took the babies elsewhere. A predator came in the night. One baby didn't make it. They moved them since the predator knew their location. Possibility?
Isn't it neat how all their eggs are decorated differently. I love it! Nature is so beautiful.
Hey, I thought you were going to post 100's of pictures. LOL! Come on Dysart, Post some more pics. :)
818 posted on
04/30/2005 1:31:59 PM PDT by
GodBlessUSA
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