Millie's first egg

We came back today from a weekend away to find an egg in the nest box. I'd spotted Millie sitting in the box for a while before we left but wasn't expecting anything for several weeks as it's early for the local Barbu d'Uccles to lay, especially with all this cold weather. It's incredible she should instinctively know where to lay her very first egg!

As you can see in the first photo, it's not the biggest of eggs but having eaten it boiled it's certainly tasty!