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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Are there Wild Turkeys in that area? And if so, has WITU breeding season started there? (Turkey breeding season has already kicked in here.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I think WITU eggs look similar to Canada Goose eggs, although I could be mistaken. When I lived in Eugene, Oregon, I had <b><i>many</i></b> Turkeys in my yard. One time I found two large eggs on the ground. A friend of mine who raises Turkeys confirmed for me that they were Turkey eggs. I wonder if the egg you saw might be from a Turkey? Just a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Lori Markoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Citrus Heights, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tweeters <tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Bletsch<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 7, 2022 4:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tweeters Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> [Tweeters] Canada Goose eggs already?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Dear Tweeters,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Today, the seventh of March, there was an egg lying on the path at Barnaby Slough, near Rockport in Skagit County. I think this has to be the earliest spring date on which I've found an egg of a wild bird. I suppose that this could have been the egg of a barnyard fowl that had been carried here a kilometer or two, but I doubt that. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Canada Geese breed there at Barnaby, and there were 15 of them present today, although none were on a nest. Most of them were chasing one another around and making a lot of noise. The egg looked like a Canada Goose egg; it was lying on the middle of a track in the forest. It had been pecked open by something, presumably a predator. Oddly enough, I had just been reading yesterday about telltale signs that can reveal which critters are taking eggs from henhouses. According to the book I was reading, jays and crows tend to peck open an egg and leave it, but sometimes will carry an egg some distance away. I would assume that a Raven would behave in a similar manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Is this not an early date for eggs?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Yours truly,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'>Gary Bletsch<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>