Two empty robin's eggs in our driveway, and another white egg that is 
much larger--
I guess squirrels or maybe crows are going after the protein? The 
large white egg
was a surprise. I didn't think locally nesting birds had eggs so 
large--almost as large as
a chicken's egg from what I can tell of the broken pieces.

Also nearby was the half-eaten corpse of a robin. Yesterday afternoon 
it was there,
anyway. Today all that's left is part of a wing and a few clumps of 
feathers. One
clump of four primaries was moving across the driveway. When I looked 
closer, I saw a
large ant (the kind that are half black, half red) tugging on the 
shaft end of the clump.
It would pull the feathers a fraction of an inch, reposition itself, 
pull some more, let
go and scout ahead an inch or so, then return and tug. I watched for 
a few minutes
in admiration, then went inside. When I went out again a few minutes 
ago, the clump of
feathers was about eight feet from where it started. I didn't see the 
ant, though.
I guess it either it gave up or was going for help.

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato