Comments on: Do you know your Bird Eggs? [QUIZ 2] http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/ My life is about living with nature - here you can live it with me! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:57:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mon@rch http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11860 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:38:44 +0000 http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11860 @ Toni – So glad you enjoyed the post with the mice and it can also wake my cats out of a dead sleep! It is wonderful you took the time to pull your books out!
@ Erie – thanks and those trays are 3 inches by 3 inches (I didn’t but had to measure them)! These eggs are in the museum and probably have seen then when you were there! This winter I am going to push to have those changed with some other eggs that we have! I figure 2 years is long enough! I love the bobcat that is in their now!
@ Lana – LOL, you win for trying and it is the best way of learning! Thanks and will check that site out!

]]> By: Lana http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11848 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:18:25 +0000 http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11848 I got the titmouse & hummingbird eggs right, at least! Considering how suspicious & distrustful the local birds are of virtually everything, I don’t go out of my way looking for their nests. I don’t want to scare them off.
Although they’re done for ’07, Cornell’s nest box cams may also be a good resource for learning about eggs; http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam

]]> By: Erie's Argonaut http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11844 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:57:11 +0000 http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11844 This is a very educational test. I had to look up the answers but now I know. I don’t know if you already answered (but I couldn’t find it) but how big are those trays?

By the way, I was very impressed with the great displays they have in the Administration Building there at your Allegany State Park. You get a size perspective of the owls and some of the other animals I hadn’t seen before in person.

]]> By: toni http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11830 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:14:16 +0000 http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11830 I enjoy reading the comments just as much as the post.
Wish I had more time to dig out our books and try these quizzes. I went to your post about the mice in the bluebird box and Lily looked intently at the video.

]]> By: mon@rch http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11829 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:13:35 +0000 http://monarchbfly.com/2007/12/20/eggquiz2/#comment-11829 @ Kaz, I need to look though my books but without pulling out any reference material my first guess would be a mouse nest! I would have shaken the tree to see if a mouse runs out (I see them in the tree’s from time to time)! Looking closer the fine chewed grass reminds me of much of the mice nest I find in my bluebird boxes! http://monarchbfly.com/2006/12/04/bluebird-box/ I will pull my bird nest books out and see if I can find any bird nest that would match! Any details you can give on its location? How high off the ground, habitat, etc??
@ Lisa – LOL, sorry to try and get your sugar working using all those brain cells! LOL
@ Sherry – you do need to be careful when looking into a nest! I always use a mirror on a pole as to not leave my scent (predators to follow)! Many of the eggs I find are on the ground or just after flushing the bird off the nest (looking down seeing it, whoops)! Thanks again!

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