Based on the Field Guide to Bird Nests, it's not a merganser, all of whose eggs are variations of off-white with light flecks. Crow eggs are greenish with brown speckles, but smaller and this egg is the wrong shape. I could not locate a possibility in my book, but it doesn't show all species.
Holly Peirson Forest Lake area -----Original Message----- From: mnbird-ad...@lists.mnbird.net [mailto:mnbird-ad...@lists.mnbird.net]on Behalf Of Sharon Stiteler Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:57 AM To: mou-net; Mnbird Subject: [mnbird] Mystery Egg One of my job perks are the bird mysteries people bring to the store, and I now have an egg mystery. One of my customers said that he found a bright blue chicken sized egg in his wood duck box this fall, we couldn't figure out what he was talking about and asked him to bring in the egg. He brought in two, both found in the box, one looks like a wood duck egg and the other is kind of a dull greenish blue with light brown specks--and is larger. He thought maybe her remembered the color wrong, but I know egg color can fade. I've posted photos of the eggs at http://www.birdchick.com/blog.html If anyone has any idea what the egg is, can you please email. My guess is merganser but would love any expert opinion on this. Thanks! -- Sharon Stiteler Minneapolis, MN www.birdchick.com _______________________________________________ mnbird mailing list mnb...@lists.mnbird.net http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird