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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: GREENWIZARD on April 26, 2006, 15:35:48

Title: so sad
Post by: GREENWIZARD on April 26, 2006, 15:35:48
i've just found this wee egg lying in the grass at the top of the garden
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/GREENWIZARD/100_4764.jpg)
it must have fallen out the nest  :'( we've had really strong winds for the past couple of nights
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: MrsKP on April 26, 2006, 20:56:55
can't you sit on it for a bit ?  ;D
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: mat on April 26, 2006, 20:59:24
I've heard of people keeping them in their bras...  ;D

mat
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: MrsKP on April 26, 2006, 21:02:00
wouldn't you need two ?  ;D
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: rosebud on April 26, 2006, 21:17:01
Thats a bluetits egg GW, obviously cold by the time you found it , how sad :'(.
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: mat on April 26, 2006, 21:52:05
Quote from: MrsKP on April 26, 2006, 21:02:00
wouldn't you need two ?  ;D

Ahh, but it sits between the "boobs"  ::) (not that I have needed to use the method ;D)

mat
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: MrsKP on April 27, 2006, 06:28:46
if i had to try it, the poor wee egg would stay as cold as when GW found it.  ;D

Shame for the poor wee B/T though.  My pair haven't been seen for some time.  I hope they're OK looking after their eggs.   ::)
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: Dixie on April 27, 2006, 07:28:49
It is such a shame when this happens, last year during high winds a blackbird nest and its eggs were blown out of its tree in our garden, all the eggs smashed :(
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: GREENWIZARD on April 27, 2006, 08:39:26
i thought it was a blackie's egg......but i know nothing
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 27, 2006, 11:34:07
Blackbird eggs are bright blue.
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: GREENWIZARD on April 27, 2006, 12:22:19
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/GREENWIZARD/nest1.jpg)~~~blackbird eggs

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/GREENWIZARD/blue_tit_nest14eggs_small.jpg)~~blue tit eggs

the egg i found was blueish although in the pic it looks more greenish
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: Marianne on April 27, 2006, 13:12:00
Hiya Greenwizzard!  I wonder if you HAD found the egg in good time to incubate, and eventually the little one would have hatched, surely it would have thought YOU were its mum!  And you would have had to feed it, quite a relentless task for the first days I understand.

Hope all is well in your part of the world !  All fine on the water now.   :D ;D
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: GREENWIZARD on April 27, 2006, 13:17:32
i was just thinking about you the other day ;D
glad to hear everything is ticky boo
unfortunaely the wee egg was cold :'( it would have been nice to look after a newborn again ;) ;D
Title: Re: so sad
Post by: Marianne on April 27, 2006, 13:21:48
I hope you may still be given that chance.  There are lots of orphans nowadays, with roaming cats and high winds.  Take care!  ;) :D