Snappers

[bobpbx]

I was surveying a stream near Colliers Mills and was suprised to see snappers come back from the dead. They looked dead, but were not. One was maybe 25-30 pounds, the other maybe 44-50. The one on the log is huge. He must have spent a week getting up there on the log.

PS: how come they don't look like snapper shells? Am I wrong on the ID?

 

[Teegate]

They don't look like snappers. Maybe they are but I have seen them right after coming out of the ground and they looked like a snapper.

 

[c1nj]

Did a Box turtle get together with a snapper?

 

[Teegate]

Something is sure odd there.

 

[Teegate]

They are not a turtle from around here I would think. Someone released them maybe.

 

[bobpbx]

I just remembered. I moved the one. He was at the bottom of a steep slope, and across the road a pond. I put him in there. Look at the back of the shell. Snapper by God.

 

[Teegate]

The back of the shell looks like a snapper.

 

[bobpbx]

How 'bout this trailing arbutus. I've never seen one with such flowers. I was heady from smelling them. Nearly fainted.

 

[Teegate]

We don't need you fainting out there. You better stop smelling them.

 

[GermanG]

Not to worry. A package is on its way to Bob!