I'm thinking wild turkey eggs..what say you?

[RobertBrown]

Hernando county Fl

I spotted these deep in the woods this Sunday. Can't imagine they wood be anything other than a wild turkey. I've never come across eggs like this, right out in the open.
They were on a high spot in a sort of scrubby oak hammock, interspersed with pines, very little undergrowth. The aggs were almost spherical, not egg shaped.
I heard a gobbler calling several times not long afterwards. Seemed to me it was awfully late for the gobbler to be calling :confused3:.
There were shell fragments near the nest as if it had been raided. The 4 eggs were still intact, although I did not touch them.

the pictures aren't the best...cellphone.

 

[nybirdman]

Just by the size alone,you are correct.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Must be an abandoned nest... Awfully late in the season...

Did NOT know they were round though...

David

 

[studor]

Just me, but they look too small and round to be turkey -- maybe a big snapper? If the shell is a bit soft then for sure they are reptile. The turkeys on my place are already hatched -- saw them this past weekend:thumbsup:

 

[polo1665]

Just me, but they look too small and round to be turkey -- maybe a big snapper? If the shell is a bit soft then for sure they are reptile. The turkeys on my place are already hatched -- saw them this past weekend:thumbsup:

I am also thinking that they are too small and too round for turkey. I have found turkey eggs on our land and they are larger than that.

 

[RobertBrown]

I did not touch them so I don't know if they were pliable or not. Snake eggs I have found are elliptical in shape.
I did a little research and I found out that owls lay a round egg and we have a Burrowing owl native to these parts.
These eggs bear resemblance to images of owl eggs.
But they were not in a burrow....... and there are plenty of burrows to choose from, because there are lots of gopher tortoises about.

Owls - Burrowing Owl

 

[Egon]

Do birds have round egg's?:thumbsup:

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Do birds have round egg's?:thumbsup:

I always thought eggs were, by definition, egg-shaped... {RIMSHOT}

:thumbsup:

David

 

[studor]

Most of the snakes around here are live birth -- egg laying snakes tend to live in warmer climes
This past weekend a big snapper laid her eggs in our garden and they do look a lot like your pictures and they are definately round. The turkey eggs I have found tend to look like a hens egg but about three times the size and creamier in colour -- any chance it is a gator?

 

[Biggreenavalanche]

Not Turkey, might be reptile, most reptile are more "round"...as a previous poster said, if they're "soft" then def reptile...