An egg in my flower pot!

[Mistymornin]

I noticed a pile of compost next to one of my pots an on taking a closer look there is an egg buried in the pot. I covered it with more compost and left it. What happens next 😯

A snake egg or more chicken type egg?

I think foxes bury hens eggs for safe keeping.

If it's a chicken/bird egg then I'd say it's squirrels, rats or foxes. They "store" them in flower pots - I get them occasionally, the first time I found one it really perplexed me!

Same colour as a chicken egg shell. We do get foxes in our garden

@DeedlessIndeed Yes, I was taken aback!!

Yes, foxes. My mum gets eggs quite often in her pots. The clue that they were stashed rather than laid was the date stamp on the shells.

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn Ah! Thank you, I will check!

We've had eggs in the garden from the local foxes, and also potatoes. No idea where they get them from 😁

Foxes love eggs. Especially when they have been nicely ripened in your pots !