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The father won't come around until the eggs hatch and the female calls to him and let's him know it's time to help feed the chicks. The male will not set the eggs.

If the female has not come back it could mean someone touched the nest and eggs or something happened to her or the eggs weren't fertile.

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Thanks. We had 3 Killdeer on the yard 2 weeks ago. Then a pair of crows moved in and we have hardly seen the Killdeer since. She had gotten accustomed to us working around her nest. I chased the stupid crows away from her nest once and she came back, but the next day with 3 eggs in the nest all 3 adults were gone. Hail storm last night destroyed 2 of the eggs, we brought the 3rd into the house & I put it in a box with tissue, not to sure what else to do with it at this point.

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