Kira came running into the house this evening and said, "GET THE CAR! I KNOW WHERE SOME TURTLE EGGS ARE!" and she made me drive down to the river and dig up a snapping turtle nest with her on the roadside. This has been her dream for years. Every year we watch big snappers come out of the river and dig up the shoulder of the road and lay eggs. Then, by the next day the raccoons have gotten every single nest.
When she was about nine, she found some eggs and put them in her pocket and ran home to bury them. Surprise surprise, they never hatched after the half a mile jog in her hot, dirty pocket. I think Kira must have gotten this nest on the same day that it was laid.
We took about half a dozen eggs and then re-covered the rest. Right now they are in a bucket full of road sand, on the top of her bookshelf. If they hatch, it will be in three months. Then I'll have a house full of snapping turtles. My dream.
When she was about nine, she found some eggs and put them in her pocket and ran home to bury them. Surprise surprise, they never hatched after the half a mile jog in her hot, dirty pocket. I think Kira must have gotten this nest on the same day that it was laid.
We took about half a dozen eggs and then re-covered the rest. Right now they are in a bucket full of road sand, on the top of her bookshelf. If they hatch, it will be in three months. Then I'll have a house full of snapping turtles. My dream.
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ReplyDeleteIsn't it?
DeleteAwesome! glad you were able to rescue them!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it was so much a "rescue" as much as it is a bucket of rotting turtle eggs on a shelf in my house.
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