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Originally Posted by SebC
Found a couple eggs on my balcony...
First one looked abandoned to my untrained eye, just lying on the concrete in front of my barbeque. Then I looked under my barbeque, and found another one with a small number of twigs. Nest materials, but certainly not a nest.
Normally I'd just clean it up and throw the eggs in the garbage to teach whoever the parents are that my balcony isn't the place to raise a family. Looked like there were some pellets too, one of them seemed to have a ladybug in it.
Thing is, I don't want to kill off an endangered species or something. Eggs are about an inch long, plain white.
What do I do with them?
Edit: look a lot more like pigeon than peregrine falcon eggs... leaning towards tossing them.
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If there are only two eggs (and the eggs are white as you say) then it will most probably be pigeons. Pigeons always lay two eggs at a time and one egg will be female and one egg will be male. Both parents will raise the youngsters till fledging - and did you know that pigeons make milk in their crops to feed their babies with (the only birds to do this). Go on - let them raise these two and then get rid of the twigs, etc. They won't come back and you could have some fun watching them raise the babies for a couple of weeks.
