re: Can/do birds move eggs from a nest?

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I once watched a speckled king swallow four eggs one after the other once…he looked like a strand of Mardi Gras beads. It was a sparrow nest otherwise I’d have shooed him off

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My grandmother believed that's what golf balls were for. She'd keep a golf ball or two in the nest boxes of her chicken coop. The snakes would be so into devouring the eggs that they'd take the ball without notice. I once found a dead chicken snake with what looked like four golf balls in it.

In the words of my grandmother, "That snake ortta been smarter."