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Owls3.0
Slinger, WI, USA
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This is a Song Sparrow’s nest with a Brown-headed Cowbird’s egg, but what bird laid the bluish-white speckled one?
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Unknown Egg!! Maybe House Sparrow??
The 4 to the right are Song Sparrow’s, the bottom left is a cowbird’s.
Huh, okay, I had three Song Sparrow nests last year and all of them had 3 eggs that you called a “Cowbird egg”, then the other egg looked like the “Song Sparrow egg”. It could be a House Sparrow egg but it’s probably not cause they nest in cavity’s. Maybe House Finch.
But House Finches aren’t nest parasites, and these eggs have many more speckles than a House Finch’s.
I don’t know what to enter in Neswatch!
Hi all, These 5 all look like Song Sparrow eggs – there can be some variation in the speckling of their eggs – they are not always identically marked. The 6th egg does indeed look like a cowbird egg however, though a bit small.
Cowbird eggs are white with brown speckles.
All five are song sparrow eggs. Not cowbirds.