Circumstances allowed me to make a rare summer visit to Atsion on Wednesday. Walking along the trail by the lake, I came across some scattered egg shells.
The hole was about five inches in diameter and three inches deep. Apparently something had gotten to the nest. (According to one Michigan website, over 90% of snapping turtle nests there are destroyed by predators before hatching. Perhaps the figures are different for smaller local turtles.)
Judging by the next picture, though, even egg-on-egg violence can't be ruled out...
(Yes, that was a cheap joke, but this was the original position of these two egg shells.) Quickly moving forward, here are a few other pictures:
Plants floating along the edge of the water.
"Come into my parlor...don't mind the damp."
Joel Embiid could have provided a better view of this secluded spung than yours truly could manage.
This is my first blue flag iris. (Told you I don't get out much come summer.)
I'm curious about these brown buds/nodules/whatever they are.
Looking north across lake by 206.
The hole was about five inches in diameter and three inches deep. Apparently something had gotten to the nest. (According to one Michigan website, over 90% of snapping turtle nests there are destroyed by predators before hatching. Perhaps the figures are different for smaller local turtles.)
Judging by the next picture, though, even egg-on-egg violence can't be ruled out...
(Yes, that was a cheap joke, but this was the original position of these two egg shells.) Quickly moving forward, here are a few other pictures:
Plants floating along the edge of the water.
"Come into my parlor...don't mind the damp."
Joel Embiid could have provided a better view of this secluded spung than yours truly could manage.
This is my first blue flag iris. (Told you I don't get out much come summer.)
I'm curious about these brown buds/nodules/whatever they are.
Looking north across lake by 206.
