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["Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heard a bird singing in a tree by the school this morning but I didn't have 
binoculars with me to get a good look at it. It sounded somewhat like a Black 
and White Warbler, but much higher in pitch. I didn't get much of a look at it, 
but it seemed bigger than most warblers and rather uniform in color (it might 
have been drab, but it was overcast and, as I said, no bin.'s).
Also, while taking the kids on a nature scavenger hunt, we investigated a 
beat-up bluebird nest box that some bird had apparently gotten to, as the 
entrance hole had clearly been enlarged. There was a nest inside, which I 
initially thought was old, but I discovered three turquoise blue eggs in it. My 
first thought was American Robin, but they're not cavity nesters. Are there any 
other birds that lay eggs that color? I haven't seen any Robins in the vicinity 
of the nest, but I have seen and heard Eastern Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows, 
and Northern Rough-winged Swallow around there. The eggs were probably about 1 
1/2 - 2 inches long, very wide at one end, and maybe an inch across. Thoughts?

Michael Shapiro
Short Pump
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