brown speckled eggs

crumble13 · #1 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 08:44 PM

We have found 13 brown speckled eggs on the ground today against a southfacing wall and are keen to know what they are. They are hard to touch, oval, and bigger than quails eggs. They don't seem to fit with grass snakes/lizards/birds but must surely be one of these?

Littlesparrow · #2 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 08:50 PM

Could you take a picture without disturbing the eggs or parents? Are you in a coastal area or woodland? it is a large number of eggs.

Farplace · #3 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 08:52 PM

Welcome to the forum, crumble!!
Can you take a photo of them? Hard to tell just what they are at the moment. Were they in a structured nest on the ground? Or just in a scrape? Covered with vegetation? What sort of area was the nest in? Rural / Urban? Farmland? Woodland? Garden?

Dorts · #4 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 09:11 PM

Sounds like an abandoned nest of Partridge eggs.
Try 'googling' Partridge eggs, see if that's what they are.
Dorts.

crumble13 · #5 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 05:02 AM

Thanks for your replies! We are in the countryside surrounded by pheasant shoots/horses fields. We had a lizard in our garden last year and will often find a frog hopping around in the damp, shady parts even though we don't have a pond. They are not in a nest, just on the ground amongst long grass/nettles. They DO look like partridge eggs so that is probably the answer as they apparently lay plenty. After our research yesterday the children and I know a lot more about snakes/lizards/ground nesting birds than before so, all in all, a great day!