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Re: Weekend Birding
- To: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Weekend Birding
- From: Amalie Lewis Tuffin <amaliet@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:40:36 -0700
- CC: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010506210902.3838G-100000@bio2.acpub.duke.edu>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Josh, thanks for answering my question. The reason I thought that the turtle
had dug the hole is that, not only was it under her back legs, but by the time
I made my way back by the same spot (30 - 45 minutes later) the hole had been
filled up again. Glad to know I didn't interrupt anything important - as I
said, it seemed like an awful weird place to be laying eggs to me!
Amalie
Joshua Stuart Rose wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Amalie Lewis Tuffin wrote:
> >
> > pick up a yellowbelly slider. (I may have made a mistake in picking up
> > the slider to try and see its plastron so I could figure out what it was
> > - it had dug a hole into the gravel road and the hole was muddy. Could
> > it possibly have been trying to lay eggs there? Seems like an awfully
> > weird spot, although there was an artificial creek all along the road at
> > that point.)
>
> Hi Amalie,
>
> Are you sure the turtle had dug the hole? It wasn't laying eggs there,
> even so. Turtle eggs have to stay warm and dry in order to hatch. She'd
> never lay them in a hole that was muddy at the time. They usually find
> sand banks for nest sites.
>
>