[bcbirdclub] Re: Fw: What Species
- From: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Fred & Janice Martin \(ls\)" <redwing@xxxxxxx>, "bcbirdclub" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bbc-members@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:12:40 -0400
AWCC MMSJanice,
The fact that the nest has lots of leaves and some moss in it leads me to
believe that the nest is a Carolina Wren nest. The location also seems logical
for a Carolina's nest, and if it were a House Sparrow nest it should have a
huge dome of material on the top with an entrance on the side, and they don't
usually use leaves or moss, mostly grasses with an occasional feather. House
Sparrows also do not, as a rule, build their nests down that low. They like to
tuck them under an eve or some other structure or behind some man made
structure as Starlings often do.
After looking at Carolina Wren eggs in A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and
Nestlings of North American Birds I am even more convinced that it is the nest
of a Carolina. The speckling on the eggs is wrong for a House Sparrow or a
House Finch. That is a high number of eggs for a Carolina,usually 6 - 8, but
there may have been two females laying in it. That often happens in the bird
world.
You used the word "Sadly", so I assume the parent birds did not come back to
the nest once it was disturbed.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
----- Original Message -----
From: Janice Martin
To: bcbirdclub ; bbc-members@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 11:57 PM
Subject: [bcbirdclub] Fw: What Species
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:42 PM
Can someone tell me what kind of eggs these are. Sadly the camper they were
attached to had been moved to a camping site away from the owner's home. I
tried looking them up on google but there were so many I could not identify a
specific one. I have never known of so many eggs in one nest so I figure it
may be something like a house finch or house sparrow that always seem to have
so may little ones flying around.
Thanks,
Janice Martin
First px
Granddaughter's lesson.
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4961 - Release Date: 04/26/12
Other related posts:
