Sadly, I found this nest in one of the Azaleas that I bought this past weekend. I didn't find it until we were home. Makes me sad for the birds tending it.
@darylo I thought so too - I loved the eggs. I haven't had a chance to look online to see what birds these might have been. If I had to guess, I would guess a Carolina Wren. They build nests in the worst spots!
@tara11 Oh, we just had some house wrens take over the bird house (which used to house the chickadee nest--and dang if the wrens did not EVICT them). They used so many STICKS--the house is crammed tight with them now. If they are small, they look like the chickadee eggs that never made it when our chickadees lost all of them to chipmunk invasion. How big are they?
@grammyn I know!! I was SO sad when I found it. The azalea kept getting knocked over by the wind and at some point, I saw these 5 little eggs on the ground. I couldn't figure out where they had come from then it dawned on my to look in the azalea and sure enough there was a nest :(
@tara11 They look just like the chickadee eggs...hmmm, but I'm sure so many look like that too. I know nothing. So little. :( Thanks for sharing the photo.
you can have it incubated. i bet someone in this community can tell you how. how sad for the mother bird. but it makes for a really cool photo. i'd kill to shoot something like this, since i can't shoot any birds as they move too much. well, no, i won't kill, i'd just shoot. :-)
@summerfield Good idea to incubate them. Tara...oh wow! they were in a plant you bought?! I saw a piece of egg just like this in our yard the other day..at the lake. Maybe a Brown Thrasher egg?
@espyetta - when we were young, our father would try to incubate some chicken eggs by putting them in an aquarium-type container filled with straw. then he had a small bulb over it all the time until the eggs hatched. i'm not sure if that's how it's done really, just some old memories. tis all i remember.
@espyetta@tara11 - but then the hard part would be when the eggs hatched, tara would be feeding them and then the little birds won't leave because then they'd think tara's their mom, then tara would have to teach them how to fly which might be a little difficult for tara. :-)
@summerfield Ha Ha! Funny story. I did go around to a bird store and made some phone calls today, but have not had any luck. I think that they are Carolina Wren eggs @espyetta. I guess I could put a light on them to keep them warm, but I would be clueless if they actually hatched!! What to do . . .
@tara11 - or you could sit on them...hmmm... can you imagine calling and telling the office you had adopted four babies and you're trying to hatch them. now would that be... don't mind me, i'm just a babbling old person. @espyetta
