Outdoor Ontario
Wildlife Reports => Southern Ontario Wildlife => Topic started by: thouc on June 02, 2013, 10:51:42 AM
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I got a lifer today, a Porcupine up in a tree at Forks of the Credit, very exciting.
On the way home along Hwy 10/410 there were two Snapping Turtles (I believe, but I was driving by at highway speed) on the shoulder of the road at two different spots. Seems like a dangerous place for them.
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On the way home along Hwy 10/410 there were two Snapping Turtles (I believe, but I was driving by at highway speed) on the shoulder of the road at two different spots. Seems like a dangerous place for them.
They probably were snappers. It's nesting season and the females are out looking for suitable sites. Gravel shoulders seem to fit their criteria.
From MNR;
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume ... 276686.pdf (http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@species/documents/document/276686.pdf)
During the nesting season, from early to mid summer,
females travel overland in search of a suitable nesting
site, usually gravelly or sandy areas along streams.
Snapping Turtles often take advantage of man-made
structures for nest sites, including roads (especially
gravel shoulders), dams and aggregate pits.
Oh, and congrats on the lifer!
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Thanks.