Song sparrows in nest (Title Photo)
Dear Readers, excellent performances all round this week! We had Mike with 16 out of 20, Andrea with 18 out of 20 and at the top were Fran and Bobby Freelove with 20 out of 20. Thank you all for taking part, and let’s see what I can come up with for tomorrow…
Eggs
1. E. Snail. These eggs always remind me of polystyrene when I find them!
2. H. Grass Snake
3. G. Blackbird
4. J. Robin. The American Robin’s eggs are ‘Robin-egg blue’, but the UK bird has these speckledy eggs.
5. B Black Guillemot. The eggs have evolved this special elongated shape to stop them from rolling off of cliff edges!
6. C. Great Crested Newt
7. D. Curlew
8. I. Wren. The nest is started by the male and then completed by the female, who also does all the incubating and feeding.
9. A) Lacewing
10. F. Peacock Butterfly
Adults
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Photo Credits
Title Photo by Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo One by חי, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Two by CC BY 2.5, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5978713
Photo Three By Manyman – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4438036
Photo Four by Thomas Love, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Five by Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Six by Merike Linnamagi https://www.flickr.com/photos/mercar/5496509766/
Photo Seven by No machine-readable author provided. Polarit~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Eight by nottsexminer, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Nine by Karz09, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Ten by W. Schön, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo A by Francesco Schiavone, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo B by Boaworm, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo C by Alexandre Roux from https://www.flickr.com/photos/30142279@N07/49671281787
Photo D by By Andreas Trepte – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15771576
Photo E by Sid Mosdell from https://www.flickr.com/photos/sidm/8008555562
Photo F by nick goodrum from Catfield in Norfolk, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo G by Stuutje1979, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo H By Andreas Eichler, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83127338
Photo I By Joefrei – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40585850
Photo J By © Francis C. Franklin / CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31367900
Congrats to Fran and Bobby and Andrea. I was torn between 5 and 7, but thought the ones in 7 looked more pointed. (But then I did wonder why the Guillemot’s were in a grassy nest). Hopefully I’ll do better next week!
Well I’m very impressed with myself since most of them were guesses!!