Date: 3/13/25 2:11 pm
From: ARUNACHALAM RAMANAN <aramanan57...>
Subject: Re: [Arlington Birds] Red-Tails in love and war
They are Painted turtles.
Ram

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 9:18 AM PAUL ROBERTS <phawk254...> wrote:

> Hi Ram,
> Neither of the turtles you photographed are snapping turtles. They also
> are not babies, but at the very least yearlings. Small, they like to sit in
> the sun to recover from their winter hibernation. Look up painted turtles
> and similar species. Snapping turtles have a very distinctive shell, and
> "giant' mamma snappers emerge from ponds and streams in late spring to lay
> eggs that are "incubated" by the warm earth. That is when you see huge
> turtles crossing roads everywhere, with many carcasses on Route 2 and other
> high-speed 2-4 lane highways. The young hatch in early summer and migrate
> to streams to feed and grow. If you see a large snapper and want to remove
> it from the road, it must be handled very carefully because they can and do
> bite.
>
> Best,
> Paul
>
> Paul M. Roberts
> Medford, MA
> <phawk254...>
>

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