{"id":556,"date":"2007-05-09T23:15:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/09\/a-family-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T20:42:20","slug":"a-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/09\/a-family-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/492073925\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/194\/492073925_a55ad15af3.jpg?w=840\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/492073925\/\">A family tragedy<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nicmcphee\/\">Unhindered by Talent<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tSunday night I was walking home around 10pm, and discovered a big tree limb had come down about a block from our house.  Amazingly I could see, there in the pitch dark, that there was a full clutch of eggs lying cushioned and (apparently) unbroken amongst the shattered wood.<\/p>\n<p>There had clearly been a large hollow space in the limb, which had probably been the weak spot where the limb gave in the high winds.  A winged couple had set up house and home there, building a nest and laying at least seven or eight eggs.  The hollow was also full of soft sawdust and such, presumably the product of the many critters that had made their homes there and contributed to the hollowing of the limb.<\/p>\n<p>In the drop (which must have been at least 30-40 feet), the eggs came out of their nest, but were sufficiently cushioned that they remained largely intact.  In the dark, in fact, they looked undamaged, although if you look at the large version of the pictures it&#8217;s clear that many were cracked.  There was also one broken wide open on the sidewalk (although I suspect that might have been the work of an animal), and I saw another broken in the grass the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Suspecting that animals would scatter the scene overnight, I ran home, grabbed my camera, and went back to take some photos.  Most were pretty awful &#8211; framing and focus in the nearly pitch dark isn&#8217;t my forte &#8211; but several provide a reasonable document of it all.  It&#8217;s not exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/corner\/collectible\/index.html\">George Shiras<\/a>, but it&#8217;ll do :-).<\/p>\n<p>Here we have the clutch as I found them.  I&#8217;ll try to post a few more later.  Many of them are detail shots (since I like detail shots :-&gt;), but there&#8217;s also a shot or two with a little more context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>  I&#8217;m pretty sure this came down in the same storm that <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/05\/rotten_old_willow.php\">ripped off a big part of PeeZed&#8217;s old willow<\/a>.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family tragedy, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. Sunday night I was walking home around 10pm, and discovered a big tree limb had come down about a block from our house. Amazingly I could see, there in the pitch dark, that there was a full clutch of eggs lying cushioned and (apparently) unbroken amongst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/09\/a-family-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A family tragedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/05\/24-hours-of-flickr\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":0},"title":"24 Hours of Flickr","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 May 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Popu, originally uploaded by fraud_art. 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