An egg in my border?

[cslgirl]

So I am digging up a flower border that is no longer wanted and digging near the roots of a small tree a white egg rolls out, can't be an egg I think, so I put some pressure on it and it cracks I know ducks can lay egss in soil, but this is a small egg. What could it be? I am hoping I may find some more when I carry on digging. It is a pure white shell and smaller than hens egg.

[TuxRacer]

It's snakes.

I'd leave them alone?

[OzzyR1]

Probably a grass snake, adders tend to have speckled eggs iirc.

There should be more.

[satans worm]

Pheasant?

[ShadownINja]

?

[goldblum]

Slow Worm.

[ShadownINja]

goldblum said:

Slow Worm.

Shut it, fast... er... cat.

Edited by ShadownINja on Thursday 24th June 12:20

[Galsia]

They're dog eggs.

[goldblum]

Galsia said:

They're dog eggs.

Can't be.

The Egg-laying Dog nests IN trees

not in the roots.Duh!

[cslgirl]

I haven't found any more and I have nearly finished getting rid of the whole border. Shame I crushed it as could have tried to hatch it and see what came out....

[cslgirl]

Apparently:

slow worms "are ovo-viviparous, which means that the eggs hatch either as they are laid or some minutes later." So being as it is slow, I would have seen it shifty off.

"Grass snakes are Britain’s only egg-laying snake. Females lay eggs in June or July, normally in rotting vegetation (including garden compost heaps) which acts as an incubator."

The grass snake eggs are speckly, this one wasn't. And there was only one.

Hmmm mystery egg.

[Flintstone]

Might have fallen from a nest, been pushed out by a cuckoo or been dropped by another bird (jay, rook etc) after stealing it some way away. I often find shells in parts of the garden when the nests are elsewhere.

[JustinP1]

It has been hidden by a predator.

Occam's Razor.

[Blib]

JustinP1 said:

Occam's Razor.

I once got bitten by one of those. Nasty little thing it was.

[Boosted LS1]

How small is it? A pigeons egg is smaller then a chicken egg but still largish. A wrens egg is the size of a little fingernail. We need more information please. Also what is the tree?

[goldblum]

Nope.

Fallen out of tree.

The simplest solution?

[Shaolin]

It'll be a dragons egg, they start off small and then Puff!

[goldblum]

very good!

[cslgirl]

The tree was a baby tree so it was too sparse for any nest to be built. No other trees nearby so could only have been dropped if it was a passing bird. Picture of broken egg below.

[Phooey]

Scotch egg? did it have any plastic around it with the letters ASDA