Thanks, Sandy. I hope it will be fun raising them. The first one just hatched last evening and wow, are they ever super tiny! I really could barely see it. The other cats I raise look gigantic compared to these. lol I looked awhile ago and couldn't see it, so I guess it's on the leaves somewhere. I just hate to be fussing with that too much or I might accidentally squoosh it. I have the eggs in a small container and have them laying on top of some wild lupine leaves that I cut from my plants. I thought that way when they hatch out, it will be better that they're on a leaf than on the bottom on the paper towel. I have the florist tube laying on its side on the bottom of the container, so I hope that's alright. What I'm wondering right now is do these tiny cats roll leaves yet? I can't picture them having the strength/ability, so maybe they just crawl around on the leaves for awhile? Okay, since they overwinter as cats and I'll have them on our unheated, screened back porch, how long will I have to keep cuttings for them? When we get a frost, everything will be kaput, so I'm wondering if I should bring any in right before we get a frost (cut some off the plants, I mean). I won't be able to keep water in the tubes all winter because they'll freeze and crack. In nature, nobody is bringing them fresh cuttings, so I'd guess that they won't need any after we have a frost...unless because of them being on our porch they won't know that it's time for them to settle down for a long nap. I'd imagine that the leaves will all dry up and crumble and perhaps not even hold together enough to hold them inside (I'm guessing), so I hope that the cats will be okay through the winter. Can I assume that they won't wake up until their food in my garden will be available next year (not until sometime in May, I think or maybe late April. Sorry, but I didn't even bother to take a pic of that teeny tiny cat because I know the camera would just take a really blurry pic that close. Cathy

Sorry i thought you were being sarky.. I hope they are easter eggs bexause theyve been left

Northern Mockingbird...catbirds have blue eggs, no spots if I remember correctly. BN

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.