Let them suck eggs!
(No PC here.)
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> I'm happy for you but no doubt someone will be upset that the natural
> order has been interfered with. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/1/2012 5:23 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> > Have no fear. Judi, after reading Dean's original observation, and after
> > doing her own research, obviously agreed with you. She rather
> > unceremoniously deleted the two
> > questionable eggs.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Just be aware that the larger cowbirds may well demand almost all of the
> >> food that the parents bring and also push the baby wrens out of the
> >> nest. That's why I suggested a cowbird omelet.
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/1/2012 8:08 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> >>> Dean could well be right, Chuck.
> >>>
> >>> But... no omelets of any kind - momma wren hasn't left the box
> >>>
> >>> since the day I startled her by trying to recycle her house.
> >>>
> >>> Guess we'll wait and see what hatches (to coin a phrase [?]).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm used to seeing the wrens in our garage, they've nested here for
> >>>
> >>> years, although usually on one of the high shelves - like behind, or
> >>>
> >>> on paint cans and such. First time ever for a bench top bassinet.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> .Judi (my bride of 49 years) commented on the egg color variation, too,
> >>>
> >>> but I never considered an "alien" species. Wow... we have a movie here!
> >>>
> >>> Rick... trying to picture a large bird in a small box.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> >>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Well spotted, Dean. Maybe Rick will have a cowbird omelet in the
> >>>> morning. :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Chuck Norcutt
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Chuck Norcutt
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6/30/2012 4:55 PM, Dean Hansen wrote:
> >>>>> Rick recently posted a shot of a Carolina wren's nest he found while
> >>>>> cleaning out his garage:
> >>>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=184214&ppuser=20714
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Nice shot, I thought; then I took a second look at the eggs. There
> >> are
> >>>>> five eggs--check the egg to the lower right, and the one on the far
> >>>>> left. Aren't they slightly larger and with a different color pattern
> >>>>> than the other three eggs? Put "cowbird eggs" in Google Images and
> see
> >>>>> what you think of some of the posted images. I think that pair of
> >>>>> Carolina wrens are going to have a job raising a pair of cowbird
> >>>>> fledglings.
> >>>>> Dean
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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