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Turtles
asop
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Why do they have to stray so far from "the lake" to nest? Pulled 4 off our road to date which is probably 250 yards from the lake??
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OTOH, I have observed a red ear slider, dug in and hunkered down, doing her business less than 50 yards from my pond.
wife and I had a box turtle when we first got married found it on the road called it Roxanne ( have no idea if it was male or female ) after a year maybe two we took it to the woods by her dads house
also remember the painted turtles in the 5 and dime stores as a kid . it was a sad ending to countless turtles
I stopped to get a pretty good size box turtle out of the road about a week ago, and take it back to my property with a large pond on it. I pulled uff to the side of the road and got out. A neighbor was coming around the sharp bend in the other direction, and promptly ran it over. Right in front of me.
Don't know if he just didn't see it, or just didn't care. Kept on rolling.
If it was really large, it was likely a female, which could explain why she was traveling.
The big un's are old, like 100 years or so.
I've stopped and removed them from the road. Have to watch out, I've had them hang onto my britches leg when carrying them by the tail. They have a long neck when they get mad and can reach out quite a distance. Some say they don't turn loose until it thunders. Very hard to pry their jaws open also.
See a neighbors little 3 year boy crying one day walking around with a small snapper hanging onto one of his fingers.
He would set up trot-lines exclusively for turtles.
Too many different tastes to the meat from the same part of a turtle, for example the muscle meat from a leg 's different muscles, one part can taste like frog leg and you will think man that good, take a bite from the same leg and tastes like pine needle or pine sap. The muscles meat really looks white like a bull frog leg. Adds new meaning to the term leaving a bad taste in your mouth.
Suspect this is why the Cajuns make turtle stew, they can flood it with enough spices to make it all taste the same.
Seen a guy that had some toes missing, big snapper got them when he was seining barefooted. He said he felt a burn like he had cut his foot on glass and when he came out of the river 3 of his toes were missing and blood flowing.
Daisy the Beagle was checking out this beast this morning at a park in the S. Carolina mountains.
https://nypost.com/video/snapping-turtle-bites-guy-who-just-wanted-a-kiss/