I found this lovely large (about the size of my fore-thumb) bird egg in a deep bed of moss along one of my woodland paths and carried it home to show my wife - and to photograph. On trying to identify it as possibly an owl's egg (Carol's suggestion from it's size and location in the wood) I found an interesting site that stated never to disturb bird eggs even when seemingly fallen to the ground as there are birds that basically lay their clutch in a minor scrape in the ground - or as in this instance a hollow in the moss possibly and I did remember thinking that the egg felt warm when I picked it up, so I immediately took it back and placed it in the same moss hollow. Hopefully a future update will complete the minor mystery of the unknown bird and it's lovely egg.
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