This morning I found an egg in our birdfeeder. It wasn't there last night, so must have been lost(?) today.
It looks loke a chestnut-breasted mannikin's, it is much smaller than a red-browed finch's, which is the other species visiting the feeder.
Why would a bird lay an egg outside its nest?
Do I have a chance of incubating it?
Christina
Wow, that's weird. Maybe it was caught short? :/
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Could the egg have been stolen from the nest?
The feeding tray is covered by an upside-down wire hanging basket, so only finches can get through.
I haven't found a nest (it might be nearby in dense vegetation). I think it is more likely, that something happened to make the bird drop an egg while she was feeding in the tray.
Christina