JohnnyB65
Well-Known Member
This is not unusual, but I always get excited just the same when I see a Desert Tortoise in the wild. I don’t like to move them but I just couldn’t take the chance of running it over with my large work truck trying to straddle it because it was dead center of the road. I did notice an identification tag on it although I could not read anything on it so it has been handled before.
Anyway it was 8AM and it looked like it had been up for awhile from the tracks around it,. This is so different from my own DT because mine don’t come out until 10:30 the earliest and I wonder why that is. It bugs me that he sleeps in so long and I was thinking that it must be the way the sun shines onto the burrow.
All the wild DT burrows that I’ve come across have the opening facing slightly NE and mine faces south with a concrete block wall just east of it blocking the morning sun. The rising sun shines directly into the wild burrows at 1st light where as mine only gets reflected light when the sun it is directly above it. So I was thinking about putting a sky light in my DTs burrow to see if his schedule changes, but maybe I’ll set up a mirror or something to reflect morning light into the entrance instead.
Anyway it was 8AM and it looked like it had been up for awhile from the tracks around it,. This is so different from my own DT because mine don’t come out until 10:30 the earliest and I wonder why that is. It bugs me that he sleeps in so long and I was thinking that it must be the way the sun shines onto the burrow.
All the wild DT burrows that I’ve come across have the opening facing slightly NE and mine faces south with a concrete block wall just east of it blocking the morning sun. The rising sun shines directly into the wild burrows at 1st light where as mine only gets reflected light when the sun it is directly above it. So I was thinking about putting a sky light in my DTs burrow to see if his schedule changes, but maybe I’ll set up a mirror or something to reflect morning light into the entrance instead.