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Old 07-04-2019, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by sunburn View Post
Can you identify? It's almost round, with a very tough but not brittle shell. Like a medium density plastic. Very firm.

It's about an inch in diameter. Found in the grass, maybe 20 or 30 feet from a marsh. I looked up snake eggs, lizard eggs, & alligator eggs. It's similar, but not exact. It is not like any bird egg I've ever seen.

Perhaps dropped by a bird? Or maybe a traveling animal? What do you guys think?
Crows may have raided turtle nest and dropped egg. See this around sand traps close to pond where the turtles laid eggs and the crows raid the nest they drop eggs every where.