Re: female Painted Turtle briskly crossing Co Rd 18

[Fred Schueler]

Everyone,

Here's Aleta's account of what may be the first report of a local
nesting movement this year - with the always comforting situation that
someone else had already stopped to help her across. With today's
warmth, there may be many more nesting movements this evening.

fred.
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On 6/4/2025 2:25 PM, Aleta Karstad wrote:

> 13:00 yesterday, windy, warm, sunny/hazy.
>
> On my way back from meeting a Marketplace seller at a gas station at
> Fallowfiel/416...
>
> About 100 m east of Somerville Rd on Co Rd 18, I saw a very shiny,
> large, female Painted Turtle briskly crossing Co Rd 18, followed by a
> young woman who had stopped her car to rescue it. The turtle evaded a
> couple of grabs, but then got caught just as it reached the shoulder.
> The woman looked uncertain about what to do with it, and seemed to want
> to take it back across the road in the direction of the houses that back
> onto the creek - but I rolled down my window and shouted that she should
> just let it go right there, and she did, putting it down into the long
> grass of the road bank that goes down to the low meadow that used to be
> home to a Donkey, and a few years ago, a pair of Percheron Horses.
>

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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
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6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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