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Crossing the Heron Hideout trail. Getting down at his level paid off in the final shot.
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For a turtle the circle of life begins in a hole .... here is mama turtle laying eggs along the Kiwa trail in the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.
While spraying for unwanted vegitation, I came across Ms. turtle who looked like she was preparing to bury her eggs yet again. This has happened every year for the last 34 yrs that I have lived here. She and the resident male tirtle were the least discrete last year that they were for the last 33 yrs and I have pictures. I assume this is the product of that union and that by Sept, the eggs will hatch. Rather than surface, the babies dig deeper into the ground to emerge the following spring and I have seen a number of babies over the years. Fascinating process. The books say that they come back within one hundred feet of where they were born to lay egggs, if that is the case, I assume that I should have consulted with them before building as the house seems to sit within that one hundred feet as I have seen then bury eggs all around the house.
Passing a pond on one of the trails of Mackinac Island, we saw this turtle sunning himself. Mackinac Island is located on Lake Huron, between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, in the USA.
Sei que deveria considerá-lo um jabuti, mas preferi que seja uma tartaruguinha fofa e amável :)
Isso é um porta-joia acreditam? É da minha irmã e ela ganhou de uma amiga :)
E como é uma miniatura fofa, lembrei da Natália Viana ( Naty fofa!) :)
Beijos e obrigada por tudo! :D
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This little guy was wandering our neighborhood.....a pet turned free to fend for itself, no doubt.
We called the Humane Society, who sent out someone from the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center. While we waited for her, he dined on our evening-primrose flower bed......he had a feast!
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The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land to sunbathe.
It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally brown or olive depending on its habitat, but for the greenish color of its skin.
Green sea turtles are able to hold their breath for hours at a time. Because they are cold-blooded, the temperature of the water affects their ability to hold their breath. In colder water they can hold their breath for longer.