Snapper Laying Eggs

[Pokeymeg]

This is courtesy of a former co-worker of mine - It's in an industrial building complex that has just a sliver of marshy land between the building and the nearby highway. There's a surprising amount of wild life in that sliver of marshy land!

They've put a fence around the nest to protect it from landscapers and are eagerly awaiting some babies

 

[byles01]

So cool great pic!

 

[Pokeymeg]

So I just spoke with my source who works in the building where the turtle nests were made, and apparently the nests still haven't hatched....Should they have hatched by now? Could they still be cookin' in there?

 

[Anthony P]

I would think they should have hatched by now. Incubation on serpentina eggs isn't the longest, and it's not like we had a cool summer up here. Would the fence have been able to keep out predators as well?

 

[Pokeymeg]

Re: RE: Snapper Laying Eggs

I would think they should have hatched by now. Incubation on serpentina eggs isn't the longest, and it's not like we had a cool summer up here. Would the fence have been able to keep out predators as well?

I doubt it, it was mostly to deter the landscapers from what I understood. But, this is located just a few feet from the front door, so someone should have noticed if the nest had been turn up, etc.

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[Anthony P]

Hmm. That does sound odd.

I would snoop more, and maybe even carefully dig in there a bit. But don't tell anyone that I told you that.

I was just surveying some NA Wood turtle and EBT nests, and there, issues have arosen as shrews can sometimes preditate nests from below. Just a thought.

 

[Pokeymeg]

Hahaha I won't tell I won't be snooping around though, I don't work there anymore... otherwise I would.... Shh!

I guess what will be will be!

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