Subject: [Tweeters] for all you hen fanciers
Date: Mar 17 12:11:38 2012
From: Barry Ulman - ubarry at qwest.net


I didn't know chickens could be nest parasites! LOL

Barry Ulman
Bellingham, WA.



On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 AM, pan wrote:

>> From the OR bird list.
>
> A (G.)
>
> From:Heaney, James L Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:56 PM To: Rodenkirk,
> Timothy J Subject: barn owl story
>
> ...
>
> I was at the property where I watch the LSF Coquille falcons from when
> the owner tells me the barn owls are back in his hayloft again (I saw
> two owlets last year there) and he says I can climb up and have a look.
> So as I get into the loft out flies an adult barn owl from the corner
> where there are hay bales stacked. I climb the bales and sure enough
> there?s the scrape in the back on one of the bales. And there in the
> scrape is a clutch of seven beautiful white barn owl eggs
> and??????????????????????..??.one
> large reddish chicken egg!!!!!! What
> a crack up.
>
>
> It?ll be interesting if the chicken egg even hatches. Pretty sneaky
> on
> the part of the chicken.
>
>
> J j
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