Grandad of the Pond

traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
edited April 15, 2005 in Wildlife
This guy must be the grandad of snapping turtles (I think you can tell from the serrated shell at the rear).

From the pond behind my office building...Regards...Keith

http://www.dgrin.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5190&stc=1
Beam me outta here!:winkKT

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  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    Here's one more pic...
    Grandad Snapping Turtle...regards..Keith
    Beam me outta here!:winkKT
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    Big snapping turtles really are fearsome beasts. Here's one from last summer.

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    A father/son team hauled it out of the pond in Nantucket. It got out of their net and hissed like a cat and chased us around the bridge until they finally caught it again and returned it to the pond.

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    If not now, when?
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    Hey Keith,

    That's one big turtle. Good capture.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2005
    Harry...I was wrong...
    This is only the dad. There is a bigger one. Don't have a good shot yet and the pond (only there after a good rain) is shrinking. But I'll try....1drink.gif
    Beam me outta here!:winkKT
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2005
    These snapping turtle shots really need a person or something in them to give them scale. They really are so big and without a point of reference you just can't tell. We are starting to get into egg laying time now. Last year I came upon a trafic jam in a road that runs along a creek. Turns out there was a turtle the size of a truck wheel in the middle of the road and traffic was stopped in both directions. Nobody wanted to run it over but nobody was brave enough to move it. Wish I'd had a camera then.
    If not now, when?
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