I posted a bit ago that I was looking forward to bring my tortoise out of hibernation but was also thinking some barriers my husband had built around our plants weren’t going to cut it. https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/ready-for-hibernation-to-end.189761/.
She came out super fast this year; we pulled her out of a fifty-degree fridge last night and gave her a soak this morning, thinking we’d see her out of her night box in a couple of days.
Nope, she was up by noon; here’s where I found her, right in the middle of the one barrier I’d told my husband was just going to be her jungle gym. What’s even better is that it is just the right width for her to get stuck so the protected plant got broken immediately. Better luck next year husband! She’s getting really warmed up in the sun now before she moves on to more destruction.
It’s going to be a bummer of a spring. A hummingbird nested right on her patio last week and we can’t be out here without scaring her off the nest. So about three more weeks until we can really get out here to tortoise watch. Hopefully we get at least a peek at baby birds.
She came out super fast this year; we pulled her out of a fifty-degree fridge last night and gave her a soak this morning, thinking we’d see her out of her night box in a couple of days.
Nope, she was up by noon; here’s where I found her, right in the middle of the one barrier I’d told my husband was just going to be her jungle gym. What’s even better is that it is just the right width for her to get stuck so the protected plant got broken immediately. Better luck next year husband! She’s getting really warmed up in the sun now before she moves on to more destruction.
It’s going to be a bummer of a spring. A hummingbird nested right on her patio last week and we can’t be out here without scaring her off the nest. So about three more weeks until we can really get out here to tortoise watch. Hopefully we get at least a peek at baby birds.
