JasonsWorld
While working on tilling the garden one warm spring morning, my sons spent their time collecting worms from around the compost piles and flowerbeds for a pond fishing trip later in the day. One after the other they would bring me baby turtles they seemed to find everywhere, even crawling up into the garage.
They came across three species, all seemingly hatched out that morning. They found Common Snapping turtles, Diamondback terrapins, and Painted turtles. Over a dozen were found and carefully released.
(Note; turtles can carry salmonella, so hand washing after handling them a must). This ended up being hours of unplanned entertainment for us all, watching them bumble about, reacting to us, and each other, while checking out the world that was so new to them.
They are very interesting animals. Soon I was in a park. They had come out of the water on land. I could not count them, but I did a lot of pictures.
Welcome to Virily!
Love these little turtles, brought back memories.
I love turtles! Sounds like an awesome day to me! Great post, Jason!
We had a snapping turtle for a pet, go figure.
When i was young we trotlined for snappers that we sold to the seafood market. We caught some that would not fit in a large aluminum trash can sideways.
Oh, they so little and cute. I miss having a turtle pet.