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On 7/18/2011 8:25 AM, Burkhard Plache wrote:
> Yesterday evening around 7pm, we noticed a Painted Turtle digging
> in our driveway. Unfortunately, we got a bit close before noticing,
> so it moved away. This morning, it was at it again.
> With the abundance of Racoons in our area, is there any advice
> on how to best protect the nest?
* it's said that a deposit of human urine on the completed nest site
will olfactorily conceal the nest site from Coons and all; alternatively
Turtle researchers make wire cages to protect nest sites.
There's a discussion at
http://turtle_tails.tripod.com/backyardturtles/byttour4.htm
fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition -
http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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