Look What We Found :) (Pic Heavy)

[cluckychick]

DH found this laying eggs in the front yard while he was out mowing. Its a western painted turtle and after research the eggs should hatch in about 72-80 days depending on temps. Gonna keep an eye on it.

And my son and DH found kittens in our barn, 3 calicos. We do not have any outside cats but we had been seeing a cat around every now and again she is quite feral. Apparently she has adopted us. I will post pics of them tomorrow. Their eyes are open and all 3 look really healthy

Last weekend we went to the lake and these are some pics we took there.

This was in our yard, no clue where it came from, lol.

Dogs found a turtle.

And a different one.

Then we went to cook dinner on the grill, pulled the cover off and found this

I love taking pics of everything

 

[Half-a-dozen]

Wow...

ya got a lot going on over there!!!

 

[BJ]

What kind of eggs are in the last pic? do you know? they are very unusual...

Wow, you've got a lot of nature in your yard! Neat!

 

[cluckychick]

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Well if DH was awake I'd ask but for the life of me I can't remember

They are small brown birds and there were two flying in and out. Six eggs total in the nest so I figured two were sitting on the same nest.

 

[dangerouschicken]

Who thought the midwest was so full of cool stuff?

 

[sweetshoplady]

You have a maternity ward there! Is the cow still there or did she find her way home?

 

[cluckychick]

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She mossied (sp?) on up the road. I tried to convince DH that it was a sign that I need to get a cow or a goat next but it didn't work.

 

[countryatheart]

Wow, So cool to get to see a turtle laying eggs. In our previous house, we had a small pond. We always knew when frogs were laying eggs in it, because they would be croaking loudly. Shortly, we would have tadpoles.