This is a Mississippi Kite. I happen to know the species well enough to ID from this photo alone, but please always include a geographic location when requesting an ID. Mississippi Kites have been expanding their range over recent years. Could you please go ahead and share your location? I am curious. Thanks!

Hey everyone I was just wondering if you could spare a minute to fill out a quick survey on bird watching. IâÂÂm currently studying IT at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and at the moment weâÂÂre looking at bird watching as a part of design in context. Would really appreciate all the help I could get, thanks. Here is a link that might be useful: Survey

Thanks, Jordanwalker, for responding to my question. It makes a lot of sense that those are the Blue Jay's eggs. They seem too big to be the Cardinal's eggs and we have a lot of Blue jays here. The missing egg theory is interesting and it's kind of scary too for them to eat their own eggs/nestings! In some ways I'm not too surprised too as they're pretty aggressive birds. One Summer, they built a nest over out garden arch and three little birds hatched. The parents were very protective of them and kept sqawking at us whenever we walked under the nest. They always bully other birds including the Cardinals that regularly visit our garden. The Cardinals aren't aggressive, but they sure are brave enough to not to give up their ground easily.

I have those that hang out in my front yard,they like to sit on top of the hummingbird feeder.I didn't know they were good fly catchers though. Kathi