Daily Catskills: 06/18/19

Rain beginning in the morning until early afternoon. Overcast with a luminous blanket of foggy cloud and humid with a high of 71F. Snapping turtle lays her eggs in a freshly dug hole by the side of the road. 90 days from now roughly 40 baby turtles will pop out of this anonymous mountain birthplace.

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3 thoughts on “Daily Catskills: 06/18/19

  1. Jack McShane

    You might want to put a secure mesh fence around the nest, that is, if it is on your own property as I had two torn up by a predator last year all eggs eaten.

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    1. JNUrbanski Post author

      It’s by the side of the road, so would predators be wary of exposing themselves there?

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  2. Jack McShane

    Come evening and night predators roam everywhere. Roadside is problematic in that fencing might be clipped by a car, and of course might the hatchlings when and if they arrive.

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