Help? Raising a NightHawk, I need all the help I can get!!

[TesoroSena]

Kildeer lay their eggs like that too. Don't suppose you have pics of the eggs?

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I’m following along to see what you decide to do! If you hatch them please post pictures!

 

[TesoroSena]

I’m following along to see what you decide to do! If you hatch them please post pictures!

I don’t think we are going to, because of the risks of hatching them, and complications when they do hatch. We talked to a specialist for bird rehabilitation and she also said to just toss them. We ate debating tossing them or sticking them in a birds nest who just laid her eggs.

 

[Altairsky]

I agree, they are strictly insectivores and raising and rehabbing these birds is an absolute nightmare.
I rehabbed a flycatcher fledgling and I told myself, never again. (the fledgling fell inside a commercial truck and ended up in the grocery store where I worked, 150 miles away from its parents).
A few years later I watched a swallow nest die. I strongly believed one of the parents died, and the other abandoned the nest with 3 fully feathered chicks. The remaining parent stayed all day near the nest but never fed the chicks. I watched the chicks die one by one, and I was really wanting to save the last one. But swallow are a major nightmare to feed and rehab, worse than flycatcher, so I let nature run its course.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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Thank you, aren't they beautiful! You might just set the eggs aside, they might dry out like fairy eggs do. But put them outside just in case they explode. I would try saving them and add them to my collection of Wild Things if they were mine. (Butterfly wings, an abandoned turtle shell, turkey feathers, etc.)