…of Highway 156, I salute you. They need all the help they can get.
Art meets zoological empathy meets defacement of public property. Meets approval.
Sign bandit…
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Category Archives: Turtles
The red eye of a male eastern box turtle
He was walking along the Caldwell Rim trail
Painted turtle
Midland Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) basking at Lake Cheston.
Snapping turtle eyes
This is the month for egg-laying turtles. A common snapping turtle was trying to dig herself a nest at the side of Lake Cheston yesterday.
Nest-digging snapping turtle
Snapping turtles usually scurry away at the first sign of an approaching human. But this one stayed still as I passed, giving me a look at her remarkable eyes.
Striped iris of a female snapping turtle
Egg-laying box turtle
Junebug (dog, not beetle) and I walked to Piney Point early this morning and found a box turtle laying eggs in the sand on the side of the trail.
Turtle, viewed from turtle-height. Note the brown eye (females are brown-eyed, males are red-eyed.)
She has dug a shallow pit in the dry, sandy soil. No eggs were visible yet. If this clutch is successful, the young will hatch out in two to three months.
Trail to Piney Point, Sewanee, TN
Looking across Shakerag Hollow from Piney Point
Ripening wild blueberries growing in cracks in the sandstone at Piney Point
David George Haskell 