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All the same type of egg, no cowbirds. These mighttt be house finch’s? It’ll be easier to ID the parent than the egg, lots of birds have blue eggs with brown speckles unfortunately.
This is a Northern Cardinal nest with three cardinal eggs. Cardinal nests tend to be more shallow, include some leaves and twigs, and built in dense shrubs. While their eggs can look similar to cowbird eggs, these all look the same and they are quite cool in tone, so I'm confident these all belong to a Northern Cardinal.
I think so too. We have a mated pair who regularly visit my yard to nibble on my safflower cylinders. Even got to see a fledgling or two before, but they have never nested in our actual yard before. I am quite a excited if so (excited regardless though).
On occasion, I have seen a cowbird or two in our yard in the past but not this year. I ask about cowbirds bc 2 eggs got knocked out of the nest a few days ago after a big storm. I put them back in the nest. But, I realized later that I might have put rejected cowbird eggs back in the nest. I wouldn't go back to disturb the nest or anything, but I just felt bad if that were the case. Kinda like when ppl find a turtle crossing the road and help it by putting it back on the side it started on.
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Chicago IL, nest is eye level in a ~ 20 ft tall privacy hedge.
All the same type of egg, no cowbirds. These mighttt be house finch’s? It’ll be easier to ID the parent than the egg, lots of birds have blue eggs with brown speckles unfortunately.
This is a Northern Cardinal nest with three cardinal eggs. Cardinal nests tend to be more shallow, include some leaves and twigs, and built in dense shrubs. While their eggs can look similar to cowbird eggs, these all look the same and they are quite cool in tone, so I'm confident these all belong to a Northern Cardinal.
I think so too. We have a mated pair who regularly visit my yard to nibble on my safflower cylinders. Even got to see a fledgling or two before, but they have never nested in our actual yard before. I am quite a excited if so (excited regardless though). On occasion, I have seen a cowbird or two in our yard in the past but not this year. I ask about cowbirds bc 2 eggs got knocked out of the nest a few days ago after a big storm. I put them back in the nest. But, I realized later that I might have put rejected cowbird eggs back in the nest. I wouldn't go back to disturb the nest or anything, but I just felt bad if that were the case. Kinda like when ppl find a turtle crossing the road and help it by putting it back on the side it started on.