Lady returned to her nest the following year, but her eggs failed to hatch.
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As the months went by, Nelson got statements showing her nest egg getting bigger--but without ever getting the quarterly profit checks that had been promised.
She runs Velocity Physio with a partner so her earnings flow through to her personal income tax return, and the SEP IRA helps reduce her tax burden while boosting her nest egg.
Even if she does not go to the hideous expense of nurturing a single offspring in her womb for nine months but, like a stickleback, simply lays her eggs in a nest prepared by a male, she still has to produce those eggs.
If a cowbird female fails to lay in a warbler nest in time for her egg to hatch with those of the host, she can reset the clock in her favour by killing the first clutch.
Indeed, Dr Kraak's analysis of the male's courtship dance is that it is designed as much to let him stop a female from laying in his nest before he has assessed her as it is to show himself off.
It struck her that a dish, titled "Birth, " using the remnants of her foie gras supply combined with a bird's nest, would represent a new beginning.
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Since 2011 their home life has been watched via a "nest cam" and on Monday viewers saw Genevieve lay her first egg of 2013.
Her husband, who was a successful entrepreneur, left the woman a substantial nest egg.
The walls of her salon on a busy corner of Melrose Avenue are plastered with pictures of Valensi with some of her celebrity clients, including Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Tara Reid and a nest of Playboy bunnies.
That enabled her to find out how many eggs in each clutch had been fathered by the male at the nest.
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At an age when her peers make do with the occasional fleeting visit from grandchildren, she has yet to experience the empty nest.
She missed out on the medals at the 2006 World Championships in the Netherlands and made her Paralympic debut in Beijing but, hampered by injuries, could only finish seventh in the 100m at the Birds Nest Stadium.
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