Unto all things there is a season and every year at this time I start to watch for Snapping Turtles as this is often the time when I see them laying eggs. Yesterday was a rainy, rather miserable sort of day and so I did not do my usual early morning rounds. Around 1 p.m. I decided to go out for a look. I found evidence of three Snapping Turtle nests having been dug and they had not been there the day before so I assume it was yesterday morning when the digging nests had occurred but I had missed it. However I did chance upon one turtle laying eggs. These turtles are very predictable as the one I saw was in exactly the same location as in previous years and it was almost the same date, giving a difference of a day or so!
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It is a damp , dreary morning today also and I have not gone out... but I have a couple more locations that I am monitoring , hopefully I won't regret my staying in this morning and the possibility of more egg laying action. I shall check on my regular locations later on this afternoon.
Nature does provide such wonderful photo opportunity adventures! Have a wonderful day everyone!
Ann
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