Considering the lack of recent rain - or much rain at all this winter - everywhere is very green and lush still, with lots of wild flowers in bloom. But there are some places that never green-up, never have many flowers and a couple of days ago I saw this on the dry open ground. Actually the dogs saw it first, started sniffing at it, and because you never know what might be lying around I always take them away from strange stuff, dogs and cats have been known to get ill from eating things on the ground.
But it wasn't bad food, or poison, but this egg. Or the remains of an egg.
The pencil next to it is 6 inches long - about 15cms? - so quite a decent size. I've googled 'birds eggs beige spotty brown bits' etc and have found quite a few but none that give a size. I did wonder if it's an egg from a perdiz (partridge) as we start to see the babies following mum and dad at the end of May and during June. So hatching now would be about the right timescale.
Any thoughts or if you know which bird, do say so!
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