Well finally baby snapper success (20160921) what sweeties

For a month now I have been patrolling the hotspots near home with the hope of finding a nest of Snappers hatching out. I had hooked up with my now Turtle partner Clarence Stevens over the summer. I had found a number of nest which predators had broken into and consumed. I called Clarence to see if he was interested in coming to take a look.
That is how the now Turtle Patrol was formed! Clarence gave me an idea of what to look for and I set about the search. One of the main reasons for the intense search was that Clarence had warned me that baby turtles might get "trapped" between to rails of the tracks and that I should keep my eyes open. 
On this day, just before noon, I was on Patrol, when I discovered my first baby snapping turtle on the tracks. I was amazed by a couple of things, first of the size, the second; the perfect formation!

It was just the start to SUPER day, and the beginnings of the Turtle Patrol! All in all we found 4 live baby turtles and got them safely to water so that they might grow to become mature and pass on these marvelous genes.
Here is a shot of another of these wonderful miracles.

Here is another shot, of just the hind foot and tail.

Here is a shot of the third individual. what a magical morning!

I will also include a couple of shots here of what I believe are "exit" or "evacuation" holes. These are just as amazing as the turtles themselves. These are tiny holes about 1 inch tall and about 2 inches wide.

I can hardly wait to actually see babies coming out of a hole of this nature. j

I'll wrap up my post here with hopefully a little education completed on what the Turtle Patrol is all about! I would like to further state that all four babies that were rescued were found between the rails and would have likely perished, or been eaten.
Take some time and put a little wild in your life!
Turbo