Monday: 6 April 2009
A couple of several discoveries made yesterday:
First, that dead tree overhanging SBS Creek doesn’t look right. There’s a reason - a nice long rat snake, snoozing arrogantly, in defiance of marauding owls or hawks.
Looks like it had dinner not too long ago - that’s quite a bulge!
And second, an unusual new box turtle, #19 and the second one this year, a male found in Floodplain West at the base of the hill rising to deck 2. I’ve never seen one with such red-orange vivid head and leg markings. Ivan, rediscovered last August, had vivid yellow markings. And this one also has an unusually yellow carapace, something I’ve only seen in one female discovered last May.
Snoozing seems to be the order of the day. I had to wake this one up.
The usual documentary thumbnails. He has quite a worn-away, scarred rear carapace:
First, that dead tree overhanging SBS Creek doesn’t look right. There’s a reason - a nice long rat snake, snoozing arrogantly, in defiance of marauding owls or hawks.
Looks like it had dinner not too long ago - that’s quite a bulge!
And second, an unusual new box turtle, #19 and the second one this year, a male found in Floodplain West at the base of the hill rising to deck 2. I’ve never seen one with such red-orange vivid head and leg markings. Ivan, rediscovered last August, had vivid yellow markings. And this one also has an unusually yellow carapace, something I’ve only seen in one female discovered last May.
Snoozing seems to be the order of the day. I had to wake this one up.
The usual documentary thumbnails. He has quite a worn-away, scarred rear carapace:
