My last spotted turtle sighting and capture occurred on the 14th of July. I waded into the Swale, which still had water depths in some compartments that would seem to support spotted turtles’ lingering here a while yet. Last year this vernal pool habitat, the epicenter of my spotted turtle encounters for over thirty years […]

Never quick on the update, I have been slower than usual here as my observations on this year’s nesting by wood, spotted, and Blanding’s turtles have been marked by very heavy nest predation, a subject I have not been eager to write about. One goal I had for this season was to try to identify […]