Great Eggspectations

   For a little learning activity for my daughter and a little recreational painting time for me, I began this quick project of painting some wooden eggs from A.C. Moore to look like native wild bird eggs from New England. I was inspired by some images in a book that was illustrated by a local artist named Helen Stevens (go to her website here ). The book, titled Moose Eggs: Or Why Moose Have Flat Antlers is written by accomplished fabulist Susan Willams Beckhorn. 

To paint the eggs, I studied some of the images of eggs they had on the inside of the cover, and then I spent many hours trying to find some clear images of specific ova on the web. By the time I was done, I had almost convinced myself to start a blog on the identification of wild bird eggs. That said, here is as close as I will get (taking into account some slightly shoddy painting by a distracted Stay at Home Mom) :

1.  Osprey
2.  Robin
3.  Northern Cardinal
4.  Rose Breasted Grosbeak
5.  Blue Jay
6.  Cormorant
   
7.  Song Thrush (not from New England, more like England....but I loved the colors)\
8.  Great Horned Owl
9.  Puffin
10.  House Sparrow
11.  Cedar Waxwing
12.  Grouse
13.  Bluebird

Hope this is of interest (or provides a good laugh) to any budding Oologists !! My daughter has gotten the biggest kick of out these....eggs she can handle without any worry of a goopy mess if she gets a little rowdy.  Our kittens also find them to be very appealing, less for my painting I am sure, and more for the irregular rolling they do on our hardwood floors when batted around by kitty paws.