Looks like it might be a turtle egg to me. We had a mama turtle lay some in my big pile of wood chips recently. They are oblong like that.

Teri

Teri, this seems a little large for most turtles. I have ornate box turtles in the yard. Their eggs are oblong, but leathery. What kind of turtles do you have around there?

I'm thinking a hawk just have dropped an egg while flying over. Does that ever happen I wonder? There's no trees in my yard holding hawk nests which I assume would be pretty large and built high up. I would think they'd be more likely to nest in the woods around here anyway. But it seems a little large for a hawk egg, plus isn't this the wrong time of year for hawks, or anything else, to be laying eggs?

fascinating! This would haave me wondering every time I walked out, looked up etc etc
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This is the turtle that laid the eggs in my wood chips.

I don't know what kind it is but the eggs I had were easily as big as what you have pictured.

That is a BIG turtle and is a different variety than my 'ornate box turtles'. Do you have a creek nearby? I wonder if it could be a water turtle. They get much larger than the box turtles.

Once when we were on vacation my brother found a water turtle that washed down the normally dry creek near my house and he put it in my back yard. It was huge. I took it to the Salado creek, a permanently running tributary of the San Antonio River where there were many turtles, and let it go.