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I have noticed several small broken egg shells in the grass, at some distance from any tree. Solid blue ones mainly, robins? Some other speckled ones show up at times. Does the bird happen to be flying around and the urge to lay an egg hit before they can get to the nest, or is there something else happening? Jim | ||
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I'd say a predatory bird or cat is getting into the nests. | |||
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If you are finding the brown speckled egg shells near the blue robin egg shells...I would bet they are brown headed cowbird egg shells...they are famous for laying their eggs in the nest of other birds... They hatch together and as they mature, the bigger cowbird hatchling will take over the nest...kick the others out and work the mother almost to death feeding it's freeloading ass. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/...wn-headed_Cowbird/id ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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Squirrels would be my guess. __________________ Member NRA Member NYSRPA | |||
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We have a shit load of the freeloading BH cowbirds here. Bastards! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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They're pushing the eggs out and using the nests. I just bought a couple bluebird houses that a I'll have to keep an eye on. | |||
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Some birds will actually take the egg shells and drop them away from the nest so the shells don't leave a road map to the nest. | |||
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This was my first thought as well- also someone else mentioned that parents take the shells away after hatching the chicks and dispose of them, just like the droppings. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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In the early stages, the poop comes out in sacks that the bluebird removes from the nest. Later as the babies mature with feathers, real poop is left in the nest. 41 | |||
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Wood thrushes do this also and they like to drop the fecal sacks into water so it is carried away from the nest. Works great unless the water happens to be your pool. Ask me how I know that!!! | |||
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