1/13/2024 0 Comments House finch nest![]() I just left the last egg in laundry basket. Some of the eggs were still yolk bit one had a developed baby and it really ducked to see that happen. I have one egg left and it’s a house finch, not a cow it’d. I never touched them but placed the intact eggs back thinking it was helping but now I’m not sure what’s going on because no one is being raised. What the heck? Are they killing their own children? I’ve read up on brood parasites but they ate tossing them all out. I took photos and after seeing this more than once thought Id place a blanketed laundry basket underneath to save from what I thought was either bad nest set up, accidental or bad patenting etc….two more eggs out of the nest. Next year (now) they are back and I’m seeing a pattern of eggs being tossed out of the nest. It’s disturbing to find (last year) two newly hatched dead babies below the wreath. I’ve been experiencing a house finch couple nesting in a wreath I provided. The host species (in this case the House Finch) then incubates the cowbirds eggs along with its own, and when the eggs hatch, the larger cowbird juvenile is frequently able to out-compete the host bird’s young for parental care, due to its larger size. It lays its eggs in the nest of other, smaller birds. The cowbird is a what is known as a parasitic species. This one was white with brown speckles and slightly larger than the others.Ĭlearly this fourth egg did not belong with the other three, and a little research revealed that this egg belonged to a different species of bird altogether, the Brown-headed Cowbird. The nest contained three light blue House Finch eggs, but unexpectedly, it also held a fourth and different kind of egg. The House Finches were indeed nesting in the bush off my front porch, and when I examined the nest more carefully I made an interesting discovery. I suspected the finches had constructed a nest, and I retrieved a step ladder in order to have a better look. Typically, just standing next to the bush for longer than a few seconds would cause a bird to bolt from deep within the leaves near the top. For several days I had noticed a pair of House Finches flying to and from a holly near my front porch.
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