Cool Nature Photos

[MossRoad]

I once found a baby snapper in fall just out of the egg, which was about the size of a silver dollar. I bypassed the survival of the fittest and carried it down to the water's edge. about 20 years ago I read an article on snappers in Fur-Fish-Game which claimed when a turtle lays it's eggs they winter over and hatch the following year but I don't believe that.

HOW DO BABY TURTLES SURVIVE WINTERS?

 

[ArlyA]

Here is what I believe is a painted turtle that we see on Sunday and we imagined she was looking for a sandy spot for her eggs.

 

[Jstpssng]

Here is what I believe is a painted turtle that we see on Sunday and we imagined she was looking for a sandy spot for her eggs.

That doesn't look like what we call a painted turtle around here. I could be wrong, but you might be thankful that you didn't try to pick it up. That head can go an amazing long way toward the middle of his shell.

 

[MossRoad]

Here is what I believe is a painted turtle that we see on Sunday and we imagined she was looking for a sandy spot for her eggs.

From the stripes on the top i'm gonna guess at red eared slider

 

[polo1665]

Wife found this little guy on a walking trail by a lake. Busy trail. Surprised it didn't get squished. Probably newly hatched. We moved it to the lake side of the trail. Literally the size of a cough drop. I didn't have a coin for size comparison.

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Definitely very young. Not sure of the real name for them, when I was a kid we called them "Mountain Back" turtles.

 

[deserteagle71]

Yesterday near Rogerson, Idaho. Mountains in the background are in Nevada:

It took me a half hour to figure out how to post this picture. What a convoluted mess! Did anyone figure out what changed in the picture uploading process? None of the old ways I used work anymore!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Absolutely beautiful...and that is one vintage wagon, to be sure. If it's been sitting out all this time, the climate has been very, very forgiving!

 

[dalola]

Yesterday near Rogerson, Idaho. Mountains in the background are in Nevada

Great shot! What do you suppose the distance is to those mountains?

That's such a foreign sight seeing so far across the flat terrain, situated here in the forested Appalachian foothills....can't see more than 10 feet tree-to-tree unless you get above the canopy! :laughing:

 

[deserteagle71]

Great shot! What do you suppose the distance is to those mountains?

That's such a foreign sight seeing so far across the flat terrain, situated here in the forested Appalachian foothills....can't see more than 10 feet tree-to-tree unless you get above the canopy! :laughing:

About 40 miles. Right now, looking out my office window, I can see mountains that are 50 miles away. But that's nothing for out here. There's a mountain peak about an hour's drive north of me that I climb every summer. There is a informational kiosk on top that claims that on clear fall days one can see Wheeler Peak, 225 air miles distant.

I grew up in Pennsylvania so I know what you mean about the trees and limited visibility. After the Navy moved me to Nevada years ago I got used to the vast distances and when I'd go back to visit my parents in Pennsylvania I would get claustrophobic!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

The Wheeler Peak in New Mexico? That is pretty far....

Anyway, a couple of pics of the sun breaking through the storm yesterday.