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Nest On My Backyard Lightcam with a new Egg - Can I move it?

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But nope, the built it and then they laid an egg in it. I have tons of trees and could put it close but not sure if they would be able to find it and don't want them to abandon their egg. when I did I realized I was being watched by the bird. I assumed I had frightened them and they wouldn't return.

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Help I accidentally scared off a bird!

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There are eggs so I hope it returns I’m just not too familiar with how it works. I’ve read that they can abandon their nests but I don’t know how true that is. I hope I didn’t scare the bird off or maybe harm it. I didn’t do anything I just got away from the nest as fast as possible but I don’t know if it will return.

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Streaks, Variegations, and Pirates

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By constant harassment, egg ejection, and in some cases hatchling removal, the original owners abandon ship and the Piratic Flycatchers move in. When I say they target the nest, what I really mean is that they target the present occupiers and rightful owners of the nest.

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Flycatchers in the Cocoa

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Targeting a nest that is just approaching completion, the flycatchers persistently annoy the builders until they eventually abandon the nest. Having successfully claimed ownership of the nest, the Piratic Flycatchers move in, lay and incubate their eggs, and ultimately raise their young in the pirated nest. Piratic Flycatcher.

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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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Due to heavy rains many clutches of Great Crested Grebes had failed, but we observed both nests with eggs (and left the area immediately) and adults with chicks, some of them piggy-backing their mothers.

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MIA

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Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. I could see from the road there was an egg in the nest and when a Glaucous Gull began circling the nest I expected one of the pair to lift from the lake and return to defend the nest. A different Glaucous Gull.

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And So It Begins

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and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. In spite of being a winter migrant, which only reproduces in the U.S. Was it practicing?

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