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17-06-2009, 10:10 AM
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| | | Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Hi there,
I'm new to this site and live just outside Dunfermline in Fife. The other day whilst I was collecting eggs from my chickens I found a strange egg in their nest box and I wondered if anyone could help identify it.
Its just under 3cm in length and only 1cm in diameter, very dark brown in colour but speckled even darker! At first I thought it was a nut but it IS an egg!
I couldn't help laughing at the fact that it was in my chickens' nest box. Does anyone have any idea? By the way, I'm surrounded by woodland and farmland if that helps and we regularly hear owls and buzzards sit in our trees. We have approx 8 house martin nests on the property plus daily visits from all the usual suspects. (Doing my 'nature count' was fun this year!) Thought this info might help.
Thanks,
Sandra |
17-06-2009, 11:19 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scotland/Spain
Posts: 5,611
| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
The only bird I can think of would be a Cuckoo, which doesn't build a nest but just lays it's egg in other bird's nests for the parents to raise. 
A warm welcome to WAB too.
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17-06-2009, 11:28 AM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northants.
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| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Hi and welcome to WAB no idea what your egg is from. |
17-06-2009, 12:44 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
Posts: 4,219
| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
It might just be an oddball egg from one of your chickens.
Have you any that are laying for the first time?
Sometimes the first or second egg a chicken lays can be very small, thin shelled or much darker in colour.
Have you got a picture you can show us? |
17-06-2009, 01:05 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Meols, Wirral
Posts: 1,470
| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Welcome to WAB Sandra . If it is a cuckoo egg perhaps it should be removed quickly for the safety of the other eggs...but I'm not an ornithologist |
17-06-2009, 03:10 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 4,220
| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Hi Sandra, a warm welcome to WAB. Do upload a picture if you are able, apart from helping with ID, it sounds interesting
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17-06-2009, 07:13 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: SE Kent
Posts: 1,375
| |  Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Hello from another Fifer Sandra,
I now live in Kent, but we will be up in Kirkaldy next week for a 2 week hol with the brother in law, and we will be going to Vane Farm RSPB site when we are up
Hope you like the site and look forward to your pics and posts
all te best
Duncan  |
17-06-2009, 07:15 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Isle of Wight
Posts: 366
| | | Re: Hello from Fife - can you help identify this?
Welcome to WAB, Sandra.
Can't help re- the egg but next time you're near Stephens the Bakers, can you have a Steak Bridie for me, please. 
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