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The Season Moves (Quickly) Along: Young Blanding’s turtle on annual migration; Wood turtle nesting; Interview with Christian Science Monitor

Posted on June 3rd, 2011 by David
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With customary regrets over how weeks elude me (in all my endeavors) I try to summarize some turtle observations and update this journal site. On the 12th of May (the day after my last journal entry, I believe) I had another signal turtle encounter when I found a familiar eight year old Blanding’s turtle in […]

Migrations: spotted and snapping turtles; “Snapping Turtles” – a slide-illustrated talk I will give at MainStreetBookends of Warner, 27 May, 7PM.

Posted on May 11th, 2011 by David
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Mid- april into early May is a key time of turtle migration in the primary areas I have observed over the past thirty years. As described in YEAR OF THE TURTLE and in SWAMPWALKER’S JOURNAL (v. “Migrations”. p. 175 ff.) when the first really heated days occur, with temperatures above 70 or so, and especially […]


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