My money's on grey squirrels as they love bird's eggs.
yep and mine m8,squirrels also can climb up high enough to reach into a birds nest,just a wild guess thou i could be wrong,sounds like there behavior pattern aswell
lifes good ,but even sweeter under the stars
better pics of the eggs would help,what time of year?
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Looking at the photo I don't think it is squirrels - they wouldn't usually store eggs, they would be straight back to the dray and eating them, plus they would store them off the ground away from other animals if they did nick them. the green vegetation suggests spring\summer so squirrels would not really be actively storing food but eating on site.
It looks as if a nest has been dislodged from a tree and collapsed to the ground, the eggs being scattered amongst the debris - in a nest most eggs would be clumped together for ease of incubation by the parent bird - it may well have been disturbed by an invading squirrel or other birds like cuckoo's who often lay their eggs in other birds nests after emptying the nest of its previous inhabitants. Can you see any signs of a nest in the trees above this one?
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Looks like a flipped up wood pigeon nest to me. Dislodged from the tree by something bigger, maybe squirrel.
I must admit CrazySaint, i thought this was a good explanation.....it seems to make sense!
But you never know it could have been the crazy hobo who lives on the edge of the wood !!!
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