Re: 2026 Turtle Nesting Notifications

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 5 June 2026 5:25 PM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
> no action yet in daily checks at the bridge embankment which the Blazing
> Star study found to be the busiest Snapper nesting ground in the United
> Counties of Leeds & Grenville.

* but just now there were 3 sites of digging there on the "NE Slope" of
the County Road 20/Kemptville Creek bridge, and a ways down County Road
18 a medium-size Snapper was dug into the road shoulder doing her thing.

With the amazing amount of nesting on the NE Slope, and in the road
shoulders along County Roads 18 & 20 in this area, it's very striking
how very few road-killed Turtles we've ever found there - these
shoulder-nesting females must have learned not to go out onto the pavement.

fred.
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