We live in a natural aviary. I learned Wednesday night that Bravo Lake, which I have featured several times on this blog, is one of the best places in CA to bird watch. One morning last May I went out in our front yard and found a blue jay egg in the planter area lying on the bark. Blue jays lay blue eggs – of course!
“Pardon my dirty spot. My parents sit on me.”
The last time I found eggs in a hazardous place for them, I called the Wild Life Protective Services, and found out that birds have no sense of smell in their beaks, so don’t know that you have handled their eggs. So I didn’t feel badly about experimenting with this one. As I turned it, I noticed that it already had a chip off its shoulder.
It rolled around for a while as I watched hands-free. After that, I put it back in the bark where I found it because I had to leave. By then it had another chip out and several cracks.
It was gone when I came back. Maybe it hatched. We have a lot of birds at our house.
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What wildlife do you enjoy right in your front yard? Yes, even insects count if they bother or interest you enough to notice them!
Other Bravo Lake posts.
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Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
Very impressive post 🙂
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Thank you Jake! Yours are all impressive. 🙂
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I am sorry to say that an egg on the ground or worse, a freshly hatched chick would be predated very swiftly. They are pretty things but collectors do enormous harm as they move from the common to the rare and even endangered species. We are surrounded by birdsong at the moment and I love it.
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I’m pretty sure the cats had egg for breakfast, but I wasn’t going to write that.
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Isn’t the shell a gorgeous colour.
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I think so. It’s my favorite color to wear, too! 🙂
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Interesting post, Marsha. If the egg had hatched, wouldn’t the shell be left behind? Just a thought. 🙂
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They flew off with it. JK V doesn’t think it made it. He said something about the cats licking their chops. 😦
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WOW – this reminds me of the story ‘Are you my mother?’ I wonder if the little chick would have asked you this question of you’d been there for the hatching 😀
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They do imprint, I imagine. I would have had my hands full. They eat a lot! 🙂 A friend of mine used to raise birds. she had a 1900 square foot aviary, and had to go home at lunch every day to feel the babies. I’m not that dedicated, I’m afraid! 🙂
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Fingers crossed for a new baby bird!
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And toes! 🙂
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Nice pic
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Thanks mike! 🙂
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