Wild Delaware

The bird egg collection at the Delaware Museum of Natural History is an incredible treasure of thousands of eggs from around the world. With the help of Dr. Jean Woods, the museum’s Director of Collections, I photographed some of their Delaware songbird eggs this week. Robin egg blue is actually a Crayola crayon color so it is easy to find those eggs in this photograph. But how many of our backyard birds can you identify from their eggs? In the left column starting at the top they are Orchard Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Towhee, Northern Cardinal, American Robin and Gray Catbird. And in the right column from the top they are Blue Jay, Carolina Chickadee, Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow.

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