The chicks and the turtle

[gritsar]

Had the chicks out in the yard this morning and when they all started crowding around something I knew I better check. It was a box turtle. Wonder what that poor thing thought all that noise was when they pecked pecked pecked at his shell.

 

[jjthink]

Poor thing! Did you rescue him?
JJ

 

[Kessidy]

I love turtles! How fun.

 

[gritsar]

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Yep, I pointed him in the direction of the pond, outside the yard.

 

[jjthink]

You're a good egg

(if you're not kidding me, that is!)

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I haven't seen a turtle in a very long time - good to hear somebody else is!
JJ

 

[gritsar]

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Not kidding. Our farm is pretty much a safe haven for animals, wild and tame. No one travels the road that leads up to the house but us and the mail carrier and we have two ponds.

 

[jjthink]

It sounds like a wonderful place, with wonderful people in residence!

So long since I've encountered a turtle that I've been wondering if something's going on in my "neck of the woods" that is making them more scarce...(besides development :|)
JJ

 

[priszilla]

perhaps they are being "collected" for sale-I wanted to get a female for the male I rescued and hatch out babies so they're so cute- and whenI went "shopping" online- the least costly place advertised that the turtles were "harvested" from woodlands and roadsides.He is still a bachelor. We may release him at Froglevel (my grandparents 26 wooded acres)

 

[gritsar]

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OT, but...I've wondered the same thing. I think we all need to be thinking about what's killing the honeybees and what's causing the white nose syndrome that's destroying colonies of bats. We'll be paying the price in the foods that are sweetened with honey and the flying insect populations will be out of control without the bats doing their job. It makes me sad.

 

[jjthink]

Me too