It's almost cold enough today to send our local turtle populations back into hibernation instead of seeking mates and nesting sites. Please be careful and slow down as you drive local roads. Be sure to watch for crossing turtles whether or not they're in a designated turtle crossing.
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| turtle crossing sign
Photo by J. Harrington
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In case you're unfamiliar with what some of our local turtles look like, here are some examples:
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| snapping turtle
Photo by J. Harrington
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| Blanding's turtle
Photo by J. Harrington
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| painted turtle
Photo by J. Harrington
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If you look carefully, you may notice that snapping turtles think they can cross a road wherever the hell they want, while Blanding's and painted turtles are more discrete and cross on gravel roads. Often, but not always, true!
Turtle
By Kay Ryan
Who would be a turtle who could help it?A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,she can ill afford the chances she must takein rowing toward the grasses that she eats.Her track is graceless, like dragginga packing-case places, and almost any slopedefeats her modest hopes. Even being practical,she's often stuck up to the axle on her wayto something edible. With everything optimal,she skirts the ditch which would converther shell into a serving dish. She livesbelow luck-level, never imagining some lotterywill change her load of pottery to wings.Her only levity is patience,the sport of truly chastened things.
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