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Wildlife Reports => Southern Ontario Wildlife => Topic started by: RKD on June 05, 2011, 09:27:06 AM

Title: snapping turtle in my driveway
Post by: RKD on June 05, 2011, 09:27:06 AM

Look out the window yesterday...during the thunder storm ...to see this beauty strolling down the driveway. I've included a link to  a couple videos I took of her. She obviously had a destination in mind and nothing was stopping her. She crawled over the edge of a retaining wall and fell 5 feet...uninjured. she then proceeded down into our valley and we lost track of her. What a great experience to be able to watch her...

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVD0AXlLuM&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVD0AXlLuM&NR=1)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptt_HEDr ... er&list=UL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptt_HEDrIX0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL)






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Post by: egret on June 05, 2011, 12:06:47 PM

Wow!

i hope no one captures her
for Turtle soup

Egret

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Post by: TammyLee on June 13, 2011, 11:41:18 PM

Apparently, there's a boon on snapping turtles this year. I wonder if it's related to what seems like a huge number of dragonflies. Wish I could see a snapper!

Thanks for posting,

Tammy