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: ( Shell length ~24.5cm (grey scale object is 10.1cm long).
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: ( Shell length ~24.5cm (grey scale object is 10.1cm long).
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: ( Shell length ~24.5cm (grey scale object is 10.1cm long).
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: ( Shell length ~24.5cm (grey scale object is 10.1cm long).
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About a foot and a half in length, seen off boardwalk in Huntley meadows.
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Apparently it's world turtle day.
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Snapping turtle observed crossing the road, possibly to/from nesting area (both sides of the road are marshy). Note leech on carapace. As I got out of the car to take the picture, two more people arrived to remove it from the road. Note gloves. This person was using an axe handle, but the second person noted he usually carries a kid's hockey stick in the car to remove both turtles and snakes from the road, which is quite heavily travelled by campers and kayakers. The series of photos shows the turtle's response to efforts to remove it from the road, turning completely around to face the attacker.
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Snapping turtle observed crossing the road, possibly to/from nesting area (both sides of the road are marshy). Note leech on carapace. As I got out of the car to take the picture, two more people arrived to remove it from the road. Note gloves. This person was using an axe handle, but the second person noted he usually carries a kid's hockey stick in the car to remove both turtles and snakes from the road, which is quite heavily travelled by campers and kayakers. The series of photos shows the turtle's response to efforts to remove it from the road, turning completely around to face the attacker.
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Snapping turtle observed crossing the road, possibly to/from nesting area (both sides of the road are marshy). Note leech on carapace. As I got out of the car to take the picture, two more people arrived to remove it from the road. Note gloves. This person was using an axe handle, but the second person noted he usually carries a kid's hockey stick in the car to remove both turtles and snakes from the road, which is quite heavily travelled by campers and kayakers. The series of photos shows the turtle's response to efforts to remove it from the road, turning completely around to face the attacker.
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Snapping turtle observed crossing the road, possibly to/from nesting area (both sides of the road are marshy). Note leech on carapace. As I got out of the car to take the picture, two more people arrived to remove it from the road. Note gloves. This person was using an axe handle, but the second person noted he usually carries a kid's hockey stick in the car to remove both turtles and snakes from the road, which is quite heavily travelled by campers and kayakers. The series of photos shows the turtle's response to efforts to remove it from the road, turning completely around to face the attacker.
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Snapping turtle observed crossing the road, possibly to/from nesting area (both sides of the road are marshy). Note leech on carapace. As I got out of the car to take the picture, two more people arrived to remove it from the road. Note gloves. This person was using an axe handle, but the second person noted he usually carries a kid's hockey stick in the car to remove both turtles and snakes from the road, which is quite heavily travelled by campers and kayakers. The series of photos shows the turtle's response to efforts to remove it from the road, turning completely around to face the attacker.
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This one had a very long tail, and a conspicuous amount of mud on its back. It was moving stealthily. I suspect snapping turtle, but I so rarely see them in the water, that it was difficult for me to discern.
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This one had a very long tail, and a conspicuous amount of mud on its back. It was moving stealthily. I suspect snapping turtle, but I so rarely see them in the water, that it was difficult for me to discern.
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Hard to say for sure from these photos but I would have to say this is soft shell turtle. First photo looks like he is smiling. That cracked me up.
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Hard to say for sure from these photos but I would have to say this is soft shell turtle. First photo looks like he is smiling. That cracked me up.
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Very hard to tell from photo I know. I am pretty sure the back one is the soft shell turtle I posted earlier.
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Snapping turtle was observed laying eggs on sandy beach of Ives Lake near the outlet of the lake into the River Stix. She was not actively digging when we observed her, but was not motionless. Weather: partly cloudy, temperature 70s F. Moon phase: waning gibbous. Lake has some granite outcrops along its shore and an adjacent wetland to the southwest. The surrounding forest is mixed hardwood/conifer. Observers were Henry Loope (photographer), Walt Loope, and Lora Loope.