Found another babay snapper...this time in a puddle in my back yard?!?

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I had found a baby snapper almost 1.5 years ago strolling through my warehouse at work that I decided to keep. Well this morning I went to throw my trash out this morning at my house and the yard holds water by the garbage can. So im looking at it thinking I better not get wet socks because im on my way to work and I see something in the water looking at me. Low and behold its a tiny baby snapper...smaller than the other one I found. This one looks like its days or weeks old where as the other might have been a month or two. I am not that surprised that I found a turtle because in my neighborhood there a re a few man made ponds and I have seen a red ear or two and one bigger snapper (about 6"-8") in someones front yard. But what amazes me is this little bugger made it into my yard and into this puddle...and for this tiny guy that is a long walk through tall grass peoples yard...and streets. Anyway I plan to keep this one too and see if I can perhaps breed the two if they turn out to be a pair.

This is where I found it...to the left of the blue can.

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and here is the little bugger next to a water bottle cap.

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Nice find! Good luck with the little bugger!
 
01C5Vert;3445768; said:
Cool!!

You will likely find a few more if you look. You probably have a nest site somewhere close.

I did go in the neighbors yard on the other side of that fence to see if there was any others because is holds a little water on that side too but no luck tho. I guess they bury the eggs...but how far away from water do they go to do this usually? Behind my house is a sugarcane field and no real permanent water that I can think of.
 
They can go several hundred yards. I think it's an anti-predator strategy- raccoons know there are turtle nests near water, so they investigate the shorelines thoroughly, while areas further from water are a bit safer.
 
Noto;3445836; said:
They can go several hundred yards. I think it's an anti-predator strategy- raccoons know there are turtle nests near water, so they investigate the shorelines thoroughly, while areas further from water are a bit safer.


well that would be right around where that pond is from my house so maybe ill see more when I get home today. Looks like im going to have to take my 3yr old girl on her first turtle hunt lol :nilly:
 
Noto;3445836; said:
They can go several hundred yards. I think it's an anti-predator strategy- raccoons know there are turtle nests near water, so they investigate the shorelines thoroughly, while areas further from water are a bit safer.


Yup, snappers especially. They travel impressive distances to lay eggs.
 
01C5Vert;3445986; said:
Yup, snappers especially. They travel impressive distances to lay eggs.


so if I found the nesting site...would it be a big area of dug up dirt...or small holes here and there as they dug out.
 
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