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Mystery egg.

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Nandalot Thu 27-May-21 14:48:37

Planting some bedding today, we found this egg buried though not very deeply in the soil. Although we have trees in the garden, none near this spot. We are bordered by farmland and have a dyke running around the edge of our property. We do have pheasants visiting us on occasion.
It is definitely an egg as it is waited at the bottom so not a dummy egg.
Any ideas what it might be?
Please excuse state of garden....work in progress.

Casdon Thu 27-May-21 15:00:24

It may be a pheasant egg, they are white, and they lay them in a depression on the ground.

Nandalot Thu 27-May-21 15:08:41

I wonder, Casdon thought is more of a creamy colour. It could have been in a depression because DH covered the bed with a layer of compost. Perhaps that covered it.

shysal Thu 27-May-21 15:17:05

Foxes are known to steal eggs from nests and carry them away and cache or bury them, so that is a possibility.

NanTheWiser Thu 27-May-21 15:46:18

My guess would be a fox too.

Nandalot Thu 27-May-21 16:55:51

We do get lots of Fox poo in the garden!

EllanVannin Thu 27-May-21 17:34:53

I'd say a pheasant's egg too as it's too big for the bird-table birds, even pigeon's eggs.

SueDonim Thu 27-May-21 23:22:27

I discovered an egg, pretty sure it was a hen’s one, in a plant container last year. confused The pot had been undisturbed for a couple of years because what was in there had been growing well. Then it died so I emptied out the pot to put new compost in and an egg appeared. There was no sign the soil or plant had been disturbed. Baffling!

shysal Fri 28-May-21 07:44:06

A favourite trick of foxes, SueDonim.

Greyduster Fri 28-May-21 08:33:28

It looks a bit too pale and speckled to be a pheasant egg. We found one similar on a walk recently, about the size of a small hen’ egg, but I couldn’t identify it.

Shelflife Fri 28-May-21 08:55:51

I suspect a fox has burried this. Last Christmas around December 28th we were working in the garden and found a turkey carcass burried in our flower bed !

Redhead56 Fri 28-May-21 09:20:17

Looks like a sparrows egg to me.

SueDonim Fri 28-May-21 12:09:46

A very clever fox, Shysal as the pot didn’t look in the least bit disturbed! grin

Nandalot Fri 28-May-21 12:25:14

Update: left the egg on the ground where it was last night. It had gone this morning.

Hopikins Fri 28-May-21 12:29:21

Foxes. I find them buried in my plant tubs, eggs not foxes.

Elizabeth180 Fri 28-May-21 12:53:52

I often find eggs buried in the garden by the foxes

MissElly Sat 29-May-21 06:12:33

Apparently burying an egg in planters is a really good idea to feed young plants!! Not that I’m suggesting you have a horticultural aware fox in the area grin

lemongrove Sat 29-May-21 07:51:07

Isn’t it strange, all the egg burying that goes on ? I remember the egg in the plant pot SueD.
I wonder why foxes don’t take the egg back to their den, or munch it right away? Dog type behaviour I suppose, burying things.
I have no idea what the creamy coloured egg was Nand but something has now eaten it.?