Aug 31
Turtle Rescue (again)
Posted: under Activities, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, Animal behavior, photography, reptile behavior, wildlife management August 31st, 2009
Several times in the past couple of years we’ve had to get a turtle out of the fence. The horse lots fencing is pipe with welded-mesh cattle panels welded to the pipe–so there’s a pipe at the bottom. Good safe horse fence, but not easy for turtles to maneuver through/around and turtles don’t seem to have the idea of paralleling a fence to find a gap.
So yesterday evening, shortly before dark, the horses were acting freakish in the barn and south barn pen, and Richard spotted a good-sized turtle. I came out with the camera and first saw this:
