WPC Freshwater Turtle Project 2012 The first hoop traps have been set. The first site has been surveyed. The first frogs calls have been heard. But there is tension in the air… Turtlers Jonny and Ashley have tuned in to their inner competitive streak, and it is not pretty. Within 36 hours upon entering the trailer, [...]
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Let the Turtle Games Begin!
April 27, 2012Posted in Freshwater Turtle Recovery Program, Uncategorized Comments closed
Ontario Turtles
December 5, 2011
What a difference 10 days makes! The turtle team is well established in our routine of conducting turtle surveys, checking our traps, and monitoring nesting sites. We are wearing out our incredibly stylish chest-waders at an astonishing rate with all the time we’re spending hip-deep in water, and between one thing and another it’s been [...]
Turtle Update – Christina Davy – August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
Hello from the land of turtle hatchlings! We have had our hands full of hatchling turtles this month – literally. Our first protected nests hatched at the beginning of the month and the rest of our eggs (over 800 this year) have been going steady ever since. Ashley has been marking, measuring and releasing hatchlings [...]
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Turtle Update – Christina Davy – July 31, 2011
July 31, 2011
Finally, our turtle rescue from two months ago is complete! Fifty-eight days and hundreds of kilometres later, The Turtle, captured June 2nd with a nasty tail injury, was released back to the swamp wilds of Rondeau Provincial Park, July 31st. This big male snapper has spent the last 2 months at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma [...]
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Update Ontario Turtles – July 12, 2011
July 12, 2011
Once again, it’s been an eventful week. Nesting is in full swing and our focus at this point in the summer is on nesting turtles and nest protection. The Snapping turtles have started to slow down, but Blandings turtles, Spiny Softshells and Map turtles are still going strong. As you know, the weather in southern [...]
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Ontario Turtles
May 30, 2011
The spring has kicked off to a wonderful start with our spotted turtle surveys at populations across Ontario. The weather has unfortunately been cramping our style, since the late cold spring meant we had to enter some of our sites through snowbanks. However, we bundled up and headed in anyways, and the cold certainly didn’t [...]
