Mysterious Egg
May 21, 2008
I climbed over a fallen elm tree near our home today and discovered what looked like a hen’s egg in a cavity created by a hairy woodpecker last winter.
The egg looks fresh, but I can’t see how or why a bird would lay it in such an inaccessible place. For photos please find the link in the column to the right, under Blog Roll.
Queen’s graduate student and egg specialist Philina English was on the property studying robins. She looked at the egg, identified it as the work of a wood duck, and remarked that she had never seen one in such an unusual place.
the Walnut Diary 