Yet again, we find another baby turtle on the highway.
This time it was a llittle common snapper, and that's a quarter beside him...didn't have a 50 cent piece handy. He's a killer feeder on pellets and meal worms!
This guy was the closest we've found to a body of water, but still about a football field away. The mild winter must have spurred early breeding, or early hatching of eggs that may have been laid last fall. If we keep finding these guys on the road, how many more are crawling through the grass looking for a place to live. And how many are becoming road kill and/or food for predators?
It's all a cycle but, it's making us look intently at every little speck in the road for movement!
This time it was a llittle common snapper, and that's a quarter beside him...didn't have a 50 cent piece handy. He's a killer feeder on pellets and meal worms!
This guy was the closest we've found to a body of water, but still about a football field away. The mild winter must have spurred early breeding, or early hatching of eggs that may have been laid last fall. If we keep finding these guys on the road, how many more are crawling through the grass looking for a place to live. And how many are becoming road kill and/or food for predators?
It's all a cycle but, it's making us look intently at every little speck in the road for movement!
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