Wow, you really have a crazy nest here! The speckled one in the upper left corner *might* be a junco egg, but from this pic I can't rule out cowbird. The other two speckled ones look like cowbird eggs to me (larger, rounder, and with darker and more "sloppy" speckling than a junco egg). The unspeckled one... I'd have said robin, but a robin's egg should be MUCH bigger than either a junco or a cowbird egg (~30 mm long vs. ~20 mm long), plus the color seems a off. It looks like a bluebird egg, actually, but that doesn't make any sense - they're cavity nesters. So I'm stumped!
You could try emailing this person, who offers to ID eggs: http://www.thebirdersreport.com/egg-and-nest-identification (I have no connection with them and don't know them - they just came up in a google search.)
I wish the juncos would just incubate and raise everybody so we could find out what they are... :-)
I think Mrs Junco is well on the case, she's been sitting on the nest regularly since yesterday. So hopefully we'll see soon! Thanks again for your thoughts!
Wow, you really have a crazy nest here!
ReplyDeleteThe speckled one in the upper left corner *might* be a junco egg, but from this pic I can't rule out cowbird. The other two speckled ones look like cowbird eggs to me (larger, rounder, and with darker and more "sloppy" speckling than a junco egg). The unspeckled one... I'd have said robin, but a robin's egg should be MUCH bigger than either a junco or a cowbird egg (~30 mm long vs. ~20 mm long), plus the color seems a off. It looks like a bluebird egg, actually, but that doesn't make any sense - they're cavity nesters. So I'm stumped!
You could try emailing this person, who offers to ID eggs: http://www.thebirdersreport.com/egg-and-nest-identification (I have no connection with them and don't know them - they just came up in a google search.)
I wish the juncos would just incubate and raise everybody so we could find out what they are... :-)
I think Mrs Junco is well on the case, she's been sitting on the nest regularly since yesterday. So hopefully we'll see soon! Thanks again for your thoughts!
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