October 11, 2005

• Becca and I were going for
  our walk one day last week, down our quiet country roads.  About a
  half-mile from home Becca leaned over and said, “Oh look!”  This
  is what she picked up:
  
  It was a tiny baby snapping turtle, probably just hatched.  He was
  on the road, obviously having come from the creek.  The creek is
  bone dry and he needed water so we took him along with us on our walk
  until we came to a culvert that had water in it.  He was happy
  there.  We could tell.

  On the return side of our walk at almost the exact same spot Becca
  again leaned over and said, “Oh, look!  I just knew there would be
  another one!”  Sure enough, the brother/sister to the first one
  was also on the road looking for water.  We brought him home with
  us and put him in a bowl of water until the next day.  I was doing
  water testing in a deep creek and gave him a new home there. 

  I’m no fan of snapping turtles but these little guys couldn’t have been
  more than a day old and somehow I couldn’t bring myself to just let
  them die from lack of water. 
  

  • 11:50 pm
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