bajajudy
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Egg ID? Pix of bird added
Sunday the municipio was raking up debris and bagging it.
Today where the debris once was, I found these eggs. They were about an inch long, seemed heavy for their size and were sitting out in the sand.
[Edited on 6-12-2010 by bajajudy]
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Kildeer? It's amusing watching them fake an injury to lead you (or another predator) away from the eggs.
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No other guesses?........dt
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Kildeer would have been my guess as well due to it's location. But a one-inch egg seems a bit large for such a small bird.
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They sure look like seagull eggs. A bit on the small side but the pattern on the egg is the same and sea gulls here often roost in an indentation in
the sand. Never could figure how so many of 'em make it to adulthood.
nena
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Eggs
These are killdeer eggs. She has added 1 since the picture and is now sitting on them, so I'm only watching with binoculars. They are a bit over an
inch in length and seem large for so small a bird.
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bajajudy
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Thanks everyone
They are not at all green like the above picture. They are brown and beige. I forgot to mention that they were on the beach.
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You threw us off with the garbage thing and not telling us they were on the beach. Just testing us? Those are plover eggs but I don't know which
specie of plover. I try not to step on the eggs around here cause I'm a plover lover.
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bajajudy
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who is this mother
Sorry for the quality but I only had my point and shoot
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4 dive bombers
Every day there are 4 of these birds protecting the nest. The eggs still havent hatched but they are well protected by mom, pop and the aunts and
uncles.
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Judy, my book says black tern or bridled tern.
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least tern?
http://www.portofsandiego.org/environment/natural-resources/...
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Wilderone, that's it. I was right too when I said "At least its a tern"
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I've never seen the eggs, but it occurred to me that late May/ early June is when we stayed at Brisa de Mar RV park many years ago. On walks down the
beach towards the Hotel Presidente, we couldn't walk up too high on the sand (away from the water's edge) or the 10 to 20 Least Terns would come from
out of the blue and dive bomb us.
One of the afternoon beach Bocci ball games meandered down that way one day and Yikes, we had to take cover. Those little guys are very protective !
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bajajudy
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Well that be it!
Does anyone know how long it takes for the eggs to hatch
I found this in my research:
A group of least terns are collectively known as a "straightness" of terns.
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I started shooting every owl I saw after I learned they were a "Congress of Owls". Then I began to run and hide when I saw crows > learned they
were a "Murder of Crows"
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