MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: LARGE PALE BLUE EGGS IN N.E. CHINA

Folks, what were giant egg or eggs (see attached photos) doing in Heilongjiang Province,once Manchuria, on July 2nd this year? Only the bird or dragon or whatever knows .

The story appeared on a Chinese cryptozoology site at tieba.baidu.com/p/2438147825 where the photos of an egg of a pale blue colour appeared, measuring 15 c.m long and weighing 2.1 kg (or 2lb according to elsewhere in the text)

The story is that in the back yard of a “cottage hospital” (Google Translate is not satisfactory here) one or more of these foul smelling eggs were found then thrown into the trash. One photo shows a middle aged man holding one of the eggs in his hand with a woman looking on. Needless to say,their neighbours were fascinated. Another shows an egg standing upright next to a hen`s egg, then being held in one hand and another person holding the hen`s egg right next to the huge one. There were no reports of escaped ostriches .

One person speculated about pythons,the other dragons.(1) Altogether a significant mystery because the last ostriches in China died out just after the last ice age according to Wikipedia and I have no other Chinese ostrich reports in my files except a POSSIBLE one in S.China circa 1893(2) The strange thing is about 10 days before I found this story I found a story from New Zealand in 1945 about strange eggs turning up in a town near Wellington. Thanks to Corinna for allowing me to cover this rather than on her own birds blog.

Flying Snake 5 will be out in about 3 weeks.

1.  tieba.baidu.com/p/2438147825 
2.  Flying Snake 3 pp 16-18