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on the back of one of Lyon’s splendid photographs of a dragonfly.
Another of Lyon’s photogr a phs-turned-postcard arrived, dated May 9. This photograph of a butterfly brought happy news: “Four well-grown Carolina wren chicks occupy my bathroom. Fondly, Bob.”
One of the eggs did not hatch. This is a common occurrence and indicates that one of the five eggs was infertile.
In my experience in studying and photographing nesting behavior, I have found that an infertile egg is usually removed by one of the adults. Birds keep nests immaculately clean and remove any foreign object.
I do not know whether or not this occurred in Lyon’s bathroom. I doubt it. The wren might have found it difficult to grasp the egg in her (or his) bill, fly through the window with it and drop it in the woods.
I must remember to ask Lyon if the egg was still in the nest when the young fledged. This they did on May 12, an important event reported to me by Jody Lyon when I saw her on May 13. (Bob was out of the state at the time.)
Lee Trott and I had a number of conversations on the
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