Egg in my garden.

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I was doing some gardening today and I found this egg on a little pile of dried twigs and bits and bobs.

This was not a nest, wasn't made by a bird. it's just a pile of garden junk I was waiting to die a bit more before I transferred it to my real composter.

The egg looks exactly like a chicken egg but how would a chicken egg get there?
It doesn't feel like a chicken egg when you pick it up, but maybe because there is a dead bird inside? Certainly no birds near by.

The only large birds I have that come near my garden are seagulls (not not lately) large country pigeons (not gross ratty and small like town pigeons) and super large crows that are often walking all over my garden office roof (where this was found outside).

If it was an egg stolen by an animal (or dropped by a robbing seagull) it's weird as it is totally undamaged.

 

[wtfftw]

I want to say probably a fox egg.

What I'd actually mean is that foxes bury eggs

Fox / RHS Gardening

Foxes are common in urban areas. For many gardeners they are welcome wildlife although they can sometimes damage plants and dig holes.

www.rhs.org.uk

 

[nogojones]

Pigeon nest? They're famed for not giving much of a fuck for building regs

 

[planetgeli]

It probably is a chicken egg stolen by a crow. They can fly with them in their mouths without breaking them.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Pigeon nest? They're famed for not giving much of a fuck for building regs

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We do have these massive pigeons that live in the trees to the back. They have been there for years and hang out in my garden sometimes. They are not at all like town pigeons. They look really well groomed, are a different colour and much bigger.

 

[JimW]

Or a crow's egg stolen by a chicken in a tit for tat.

 

[danski]

We do have these massive pigeons that live in the trees to the back. They have been there for years and hang out in my garden sometimes. They are not at all like town pigeons. They look really well groomed, are a different colour and much bigger.

Wood pigeon

 

[hash tag]

It's a gulls egg

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wood pigeon

Did I not say Wood pigeon?
Oh, I must have said that on Facebook.

Are they good eatin'?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's a gulls egg

Are they good eatin'?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's a gulls egg

Actually the Internet seems to think they are speckled and not white.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wood pigeon

This looks like the right answer, though a little on the large side, our local wood pigeons are flipping huge.

 

[danski]

Did I not say Wood pigeon?
Oh, I must have said that on Facebook.

Are they good eatin'?

Dunno.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Dunno.

Probably got a little fella in it though right? I don't want pigeon balut for breakfast.

 

[Sasaferrato]

It is a pigeon, they build haphazard small nests.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It is a pigeon, they build haphazard small nests.

Not wood pigeons, they generally do a decent job in the trees. . . Though in this case they didn't do anything. . . Just popped it out on my stick pile.

 

[tim]

Wood pigeon

Dodos are a breed of very large pigeon. Maybe the survivors of the massacres in Maritius are hiding out in trees at the bottom of your garden.

 

[WouldBe]

Not wood pigeons, they generally do a decent job in the trees. . . Though in this case they didn't do anything. . . Just popped it out on my stick pile.

Sometimes birds get caught short when they need to lay an egg.

 

[hash tag]

Are they good eatin'?

When hatched the will eat anything, chips, ice cream, candy floss.....