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Yellow Bunting Egg
The Yellow Bunting, also known as the Yellow Hammer, nest close to or on the ground. They build bulky, neat nests made of grass, roots and moss. They will often lay up to three clutches of eggs a year that can contain up to five of six eggs. They ars usually a very pale purple white marked with dark lines and scribbles.
These eggs bare the collectors number 19 and from notes accompanying the egg we know that they were collected in Suffolk in 1867.
Accession number SHRCM Z. 00425