Turtle ! A few more turtle pics added....keep posting your turtle pics.
William81
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My Bride and I headed out yesterday to visit a few local cemeteries where her people are buried. One of the cemeteries is located on private property and access to it is difficult, but it is always open during the Memorial Day weekend. It is out in the middle of nowhere and located half a mile or so from the nearest road. We took some time and paid our respects to several generation of family members.
As we were getting ready to leave, I noticed this turtle sunning in the back of the cemetery. There are lots of turtles out and about this time of year, but this was the biggest one I have ever come across. It was over a foot long from one end of its shell to the other. It has been dry so l put some water on the vegetation around it. It was interesting to watch....
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Don
Don
@William81 with that amount of dirt on the shell it may have been digging a place to lay it's eggs. We have a bunch of turtles that call our pond home and it is that time of year for them to be digging in our yard.
A few years ago, a snapper laid her eggs next to the driveway. Because of all the raccoons and skunks, I decided to cover her buried clutch of eggs with a wire cage leftover from protecting some seedlings. About 6 or so weeks later I happened to walk by and saw the dirt under the cage was disturbed. I pulled off the cage and saw one baby turtle. Brushing the dirt aside I kept finding more and more. I think the total was somewhere around 50, all from one momma snapper. I transported them the 40 yards to the pond and released them. Sometimes living in the country is fun! Bob
I wondered about that....
I always hear if they bite you, they won't let go until it thunders.
Always swim on your back around snapping turtles. Ha...
I love turtles, but if a snapper happens to bite me.......it will thunder real quick!! 😁
Picked this little snapper up trying to cross a road last Sunday. I was surprised to see the leeches attached to its shell.
Red eared slider. At a foot long certainly a female, though she is not old. Covered with mud instead of crumbly dirt, she is likely not laying eggs, more likely traveling from a drying pond to better water. These are the little green turtles that used to be sold by the millions each year in the pet trade. They are now established many places in the world and causing havoc with native turtle populations in many areas. Here in the southwest they have become established in many areas and appear to be out competing the native painted turtles.
looks like a gator bite on the rear of the carapace.
I had not noticed that but yes it does. That was a fairly big soft shell. Don
While golfing on a course along our lake we always find mostly "painted" turtles 300 yards or more from the lake. Egg laying in the sand traps! Every year at this time.
Giant petrified turtle in my top secret hunting spot. Haha
Female, they are several times larger than males. Have to store a lot of energy for eggs and need space for the eggs to grow.
A couple turtles hanging out in my favorite fishing spot...
Baby snapper at another lake I fish !
This one was walking through the yard on the way to who knows where....
OK! I stole this picture off the internet. Saved it several years ago for its WOW factor.
I have lost track of the number of turtles I have moved off the roads over the years . I Hope it was the direction they wanted to go lol
The turtles have not showed up yet. Here in the NC mountains we have lots of box turtles. I often stop and help them across the road. I have only seen 2 so far this year, an extended hibernation I guess.
Grandpuppy found this guy on a walk last summer. First thing he did was stick his nose under the turtle and flip him over.
Turtles carry Salmonella. Be cautious and wash your hands!
Many reptiles can carry serotypes of salmonella that are pathogenic in humans. Like he said, wash yer paws.
We've already got one in the White House! Isn't that enough?
Those snapping turtles are prehistoric lookin' critters, aren't they? There's a few turtles up at a little lake where my sister in law has her lake house. Don't know what kind they are but they're fun to watch.
Isn't he a turdle?
Toadely!
Two in the White House and one is a Bed Post Turtle.
Not sure why, but whenever we get within 50 yards of a turtle around here, they jump in the water and aren't seen again. I think that they're painted box turtles. The wife did move one out of the road last week though. Nice pictures you guys are posting, thanks.
Yeah, but you cheat! You have a mouse in yer pocket…..
Snappers great eating by the way.
OK, toad, they are either painted, or box turtles, but not both, unless you painted them. Box turtles evolved from aquatic turtles in Mexico, and can handle water well, but don't live in water, or bask on logs. If you can see their lower shell edge and it is red, they are painted turtles. If yellow, they are sliders of one species or another.
He must be a wee little fella…..(anudder pun fer ya)!
Hey we are talking about turtles here !!! 🙃😜🤨
Alright , already!
THAT IS MORE LIKE IT !!!! 😉
When i was in 9th grade
A classmate brought in his two turtles to science class as show and tell day
Both were the painted type like the local 5 and dime stores use to sell with the little plastic island shaped plastic contaoners or homes that for the most part were terribe for the turtles
but his were way larger and not sure how old they were he had had them for years as a gift when he was a very young fellow .obvious he and his parents had taken good care of the pair
Thinking back they must have been a record for the longest surviving department store bought turtles
When younger I had a couple as so called pets I had found in a local park one was a snapping and one was a soft shell turtle not at the same time . I would keep them for a short time then release back in the park I found them in
both were about 3 inches in diameter very young
looking for just the right spot
A turtle story from way back when I was in Kindergarten (age 5). Our classroom had a resident painted turtle that probably came from Woolworths and lived in one of those plastic turtle set ups of the time. It was a very small baby type but had made it through a few years of prior classes.
Every year, our teacher would invite younger kids that would be starting Kindergarten in the next Autumn cycle to visit our class for a day. My little brother Mark was among that bunch and seemed to really enjoy playing with our turtle in the sandbox! When the next day came along, the teacher was acting quite frantic. The turtle was missing!! We all spent a great deal of time searching but never found the poor little fella.
Many months passed. Then one day one of the kids was playing with the toy robot and noticed that something was rattling around inside when he shook it. When it was opened up.......a very dead and smelly turtle was found!!
We have some western box turtles, that we have had 30 years. They were adult when we received them, making them 10 years or older at that time. The oldest female still lays eggs. The verified record for a box turtle is a bit over 150 years, one marked on George Washington's property as part of a survey, and recovered several years ago in another survey.
I saw this beast in a field today, 100 yards from the French Broad River. He is 16 inches long. Isn't this a water turtle? Why is he so far from the river?
How about this one: Best Regards - AQH
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