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Smallest eggs ever, NOW tiny chicks with giant beaks !!
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 10:11 pm
by Ontario Chick
Or at least the smallest I have ever seen, the nest is about 2" across and the eggs are tiny, the bird is small brownish looks like some kind of wren I think, way too fast to see any details as it took off from the nest.
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 11:27 pm
by windwalkingwolf
WOW, so tiny!
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 3:14 am
by kenya
They are tiny!
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 5:55 am
by WLLady
Might be a kingtit. Theyre about half the size of a sparrow and small blue eggs....great find!!!
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:18 pm
by kenya
Is that the right spelling? I googled it as I wanted to see what they looked like and couldn't find it.
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:25 pm
by windwalkingwolf
Kingbit?
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:50 pm
by Killerbunny
Kinglet, but they don't have blue eggs.
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:52 pm
by WLLady
Look up bushtit.....i think thats the other name. We have the yellow striped ones here and they lay blue eggs. Seen moms (orange stripe) on nests usually in brambly trees like hawthorns while the males have a yellow stripe on their heads.
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:53 pm
by Jaye
A blue tit wren, or wren tit, maybe ... or a goldcrest, a small bird in the kinglet family: In European folklore it's referred to sometimes as the king of birds. Not sure why.
Re: Smallest eggs ever,
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 8:20 pm
by Ontario Chick
Today I spotted a brown patch on top of head, hope they slow down once the chicks hatch, so I can take a good look and identify. The nest is in a 4 foot cedar, other years they have nested in an Alberta spruce, but I never found the nest, now I know why, had no idea it would be that tiny.
