My neighbors and I have had a time with a certain raccoon that has been dumping out trashcans over since winter set in last year. We've done all we can in keeping the varmint out: heavy rocks, cinderblocks even locks and he still gets in. Well, my neighbor on my left put up a fence a week ago that's been keeping the raccoon out from her cans and that, obviously, didn't settle well with Mr. Raccoon.
I have an evergreen tree up against my back porch, some birds (I'm being told Blue Jays, I'm color blind with the colors blue and green so I cannot tell what the bird is) built a nest in it and layed 4 eggs in it (guessing recently as I didn't see the nest a week ago). Mr. Raccoon got into the nest, killed the momma bird (there are bird feathers all over underneath my back porch!) and he knocked the nest over, spewing all four eggs out from it. Two of the eggs smashed after falling, the other two somehow survived. I collected the nest and the two eggs and put them, at first, in a plastic container over my Anole cage which is 78 degrees. After reading up that the eggs will need 100 degree temperature to incubate I removed them from that container, put them in an aquarium that has a humidity and temperature gauge. I put aluminum foil over a majority of the top, put a heat lamp fixture over the area that I did not cover with the aluminum foil and I have a good, white light in the fixture. There's another heat lamp on in the cage beside the one that has the eggs.
Anything else I can do? I have no fan going on in my bedroom, the lights are all on so it should get pretty hot in there. I'm new at birds, I did care for a bird once when I was a child and that one, due to not getting enough warmth or food, died. I don't want that to happen if these eggs hatch. I get over 100 wax worms a month, will they be good enough for the baby birds should they hatch or will they need something else to eat?
I have an evergreen tree up against my back porch, some birds (I'm being told Blue Jays, I'm color blind with the colors blue and green so I cannot tell what the bird is) built a nest in it and layed 4 eggs in it (guessing recently as I didn't see the nest a week ago). Mr. Raccoon got into the nest, killed the momma bird (there are bird feathers all over underneath my back porch!) and he knocked the nest over, spewing all four eggs out from it. Two of the eggs smashed after falling, the other two somehow survived. I collected the nest and the two eggs and put them, at first, in a plastic container over my Anole cage which is 78 degrees. After reading up that the eggs will need 100 degree temperature to incubate I removed them from that container, put them in an aquarium that has a humidity and temperature gauge. I put aluminum foil over a majority of the top, put a heat lamp fixture over the area that I did not cover with the aluminum foil and I have a good, white light in the fixture. There's another heat lamp on in the cage beside the one that has the eggs.
Anything else I can do? I have no fan going on in my bedroom, the lights are all on so it should get pretty hot in there. I'm new at birds, I did care for a bird once when I was a child and that one, due to not getting enough warmth or food, died. I don't want that to happen if these eggs hatch. I get over 100 wax worms a month, will they be good enough for the baby birds should they hatch or will they need something else to eat?
