Can any care be provided for a birds eggs?

You can try putting the nest back and the eggs in it, but they probably will not survive.

Things like this are why cats should not be allowed to roam. Please keep your cat indoors.

@crisw, Okay, thanks for your answer!

If I was to do what you recommend, my neighbors are going to see the eggs in the nest, then they are going to blame my cat for it since it likes to roam around the rails of their wooden deck which they really don’t mind, but the bird attack happened un-expectedly.

@crisw By that same token, I guess people should be kept indoors, too. After all, we do more damage than cats. By far. Just saying…

It’s nature!

@simone54, Very true! Thanks for your answer! I just don’t want to tell my neighbors that it was just nature lol, because I’ll have to keep my cat indoors like crisw said. And that would be like me grounding my cat into a punishment when the weather in my area is great to enjoy the outdoors.

If they’re going to survive they need heat. My assumption is sadly tho, that by the time you see this they will already have died. To keep them alive put under a heat lamp, or some kind of heated thing to imitate the mothers body heat and “blanket.”

But as said the odds of survival are low.

It would be neighborly to have the dead bird and the eggs removed from the ground. If you don’t want to dispose of the bird yourself, there are often local services that will do it for you.

As for the eggs, there are probably three options: dispose of them yourself, attempt to hatch them, or call a wildlife center and see if they have advice/want them. We’ve had deserted birds’ eggs in our back yard, and not once were we able to get them to hatch.

The nest options seem to be: leave it on the ground, put it back up in the tree, or get rid of it as well.

@simone54

“It’s nature!”

No, it isn’t. Cats are domestic animals. And they are tremendously destructive to true native wildlife, as this question shows. it;ls been estimated that in the US, cats kill half a billion to a billion songbirds a year. We don’t let our dogs roam and kill deer like wolves; why should we allow our cats to slaughter birds? Cats also slaughter endangered species.

In addition, roaming cats fact other dangers. As the Denver DFL stated:
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If you allow your cat to wander around on her own, without your supervision, she is susceptible to any of the following tragedies:
• becoming hit by a car
• ingesting a deadly poison like antifreeze or a pesticide
• becoming trapped by an unhappy neighbor
• being attacked by a roaming dog, cat or wild animal
• contracting a disease from another animal
• becoming lost and unable to find her way home
• being stolen
• encountering an adult or child with cruel intentions
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So please, do your cat and wildlife a favor. Keep her indoors.

I dunno. My cat loves being outside and feel like nature wants him to.

@simone54

When we adopt animals, we must act as their guardians. That means that, even if they enjoy doing something, we can make better decisions than they can as to what is best for them. My dogs would love to chase tennis balls across the road. I don’t let them. My cats would enjoy hunting rattlesnakes. I don’t let them.

Similarly, letting cats roam is bad for the cats and bad for wildlife, no matter how much the cats like it.

You can compromise and build a safe outdoor run for the cats. That way, they can get out, eat grass, etc. without danger to themselves or to wild birds.

Isn’t it mean to not let them be animal?

A friend once advised me to put the shoe on the other foot. So, in this case, how would you feel if you found a neighbor’s dog in your yard with your now deceased cat in their mouth?

@simone54

No.

Isn’t it mean to allow dozens of birds to die? Isn’t it mean to let your cat contract FIV, get hit by a car, get poisoned by antifreeze?

My cat only kills the stupid slow birds.

@simone54, I’m thinking crisw is confusing your answer with wildlife nature. We as humans live in nature — “outdoor elements,” “madman,” “bitten by loose dogs,” “cars and accidents.” Cats often go through danger of being outdoors like being attacked by a dog, getting hit by a car, poisioning from antifreeze, etc. But also a lot of cats (like mine for example), maybe yours too are trained in their own ways to roam around in your front/backyard, including your neighbors yard that will depend if your neighbors are cat lovers or not. Both of my next door neigbors do not mind if my cat roams around in their yards. In the cat incident, it’s really not my cat’s fault.

You posting in your answer; “It’s nature!” Again very true if your answer meant exactly what I thought when I had read your answer. Fact is: a domestic cat still has the same wild cat killer instincts in it’s nature, so really the blame is on my neighbors because the birds nest shouldn’t had been underneath their roof deck in which they had hanged there since it was reachable for my cat to climb the wooden rails in their deck. I can even get on top of a chair to hang the birds nest back in it’s place were I don’t have to climb any trees lol, or spend any money on special fencing when my cat sleeps most of the day indoors and goes outdoors for it’s liter.

Although I agree with crisw that it is mean for birds to die from predators, but cats are being cats just like dogs are being dogs. If my cat was to be deceased in a dogs mouth, I would feel my cat was at the wrong place at the wrong time; same way if a dog owner had found it’s dog was loose on the neighborhood and was attacked by a bit larger dog when dogs were meant for safety precautions to be kept on front/backyard fences, cats are not. lol

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7ySwuXqr8Bo/Sc_fZFgfZCI/AAAAAAAADDk/FdC9Z8-IM0E/s400/WinterFenceCat.jpg

@tedd, Thanks for your answer! By your advice, it seems like it will be a waste of time to even attempt to imitate the mothers body heat although I wouldn’t mind giving it a try.

@simone54

And what about all the things that will kill your cat?

@Tamara

“Fact is: a domestic cat still has the same wild cat killer instincts in it’s nature, so really the blame is on my neighbors”

No, it isn’t. That’s exactly the same as stating that, if you let your dog roam and it bites someone, it’s the fault of the person who is bitten.

You let your cat out. This is entirely your responsibility; not your neighbor’s. If the cat were inside, it would not have wiped out an entire family of wild birds.

@Pied_Pfeffer, Thanks for your answer! I agree 100%, although points for every answerer. I was reading your answer and I forgot to thank you. I got caught-up reading through the links crisw provided. I did the neighborly advice you recommended. I didn’t dispose of the nest. Instead, I hanged the nest back in it’s place. I warned the postal worker about the eggs as soon as she was going to my neighbors home to get enough time to gather them together.

The mail lady had said the same advice you did as the eggs were not going to survive and that it would be worthless to even call a wild life center after a couple of days when I had noticed this incident. I didn’t want to dispose of the eggs in the garbage, so the mail carrier did the honors in the street by getting rid of the evidence for me. As for the deceased bird I went to grab a paper bag, some rubber gloves and threw it in my trash can like nothing happened. By this, I’ll let my neighbors know that they should put the nest even higher were the roof deck still has more space for the nest to be securely safe.

@crisw, to your question, cats all over the world often go through danger as I did made that clear. There are more possibilities for stray cats to get injured or killed. People’s household cats can get used to their daily cat routines. That all depends on how the cat owner trains their cat, same way with 7 to 10 year old kids. As for allowing a dog to roam around and it bites someone as you claim — yes I would be responsible, but again, dogs were meant to be kept in fences. People that own and care for their cats will not allow their cats to roam around an entire neighborhood in the first place.

To take care of this problem, if a cat leaves it’s owner and it gets lost, gets hit by a car, gets stolen, etc; train the cat when it’s starts going past the next door neighbors home, teach it to come back when it’s going farther than an owners expectations. If neighbors aren’t cat lovers, then train the cat to be around in that owners property only. It is that simple, cats are not slow learners by the way. In my my case, my neighbors do not mind if my cat roams around in their properties, as I also made that clear.

- “You let your cat out. This is entirely your responsibility; not your neighbor’s.”

I know this bird attack wouldn’t have happened if my neighbors hadn’t left the birds nest were it was reachable, that’s just the nature of a cat and it’s instincts when a birds nest shouldn’t have been in nature’s very own trees.

Correct: http://afteracupofcoffee.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/nest-e1280937928721.jpg

Incorrect: http://media.photobucket.com/image/backyard%20bird%20nest%20photos/tiffmee/Nature/100_0453.jpg

My cat just killed a bird dog.

@simone54, A bird dog? Lolz, stop it! I was reading crisw’s profile, he is an animal rights activist.
I wouldn’t want to make him angry if I were you. All I wanted to explain this bird incident because he was giving you some good licks. lol

Was he?

@simone54, Verbally that is. :)