This old stripper head came to see me at the Cabin today and got tossed into my trailer. It then got relocated three miles away. I don't think that it will find it's way back.
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I saw two more "run over" coming home, so they must have really been moving after that flood rain that we got early this morning.
We have them here Lynn, I think they are called Wood turtles.
I've never known one to bite anyone!
It's that time of year again and they are out looking for a suitable place to lay their eggs!
I mostly only see snappers laying eggs on the edge of the dirt road down by the brook. I stopped once when 2 teenagers boys was checking out a snapper. They was having a fit,and the snapper was too. ;D They had never seen one up close. At least they did not run it over.
Will there be a TURTLE CRISP'N announcement? :D
For a minute there, I thought Mr. Turtle was being "relocated" to the soup pot. ;D :D ;D
Folks eat loggerheads, (snapping) but I have never heard or anyone eating a stripped head.
I have "road tripped" a possum, but never a turtle.
magic, some of the people in southern louisiana eat them and say they are good, i havent got that brave or hungry yet.
I was going down the road one day and swerved to miss a turtle. Evidently I did not swerve quite enough, as I heard the metal guard rail to my right go "BONNNGGG!" as something struck it. I looked in the rearview and there was no longer a turtle in the road. Out of curosity I stopped and walked back. Yes, I had just caught his edge and he shot out like a squeezed watermelon seed. He was OK, though, he was still crawling.
I have seen a lot of Red Ear Sliders lately but must be 25 years since I seen a Box Turtle in the Wild. When I was a kid we saw a good number of them wandering the woods. :-\
Mark
You may find this thread about box turtles interesting: LINK (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,59250.msg863384.html#msg863384)