Pond Keepers: Creature Collecting in Snow

Again, this snow is really cramping my Pond Keeper collecting style...I guess I won't be scooping goop for another few days...

Will we ever have a Pond Keepers program this spring?!?

TheChristyBel

Louisa Pond

No Access Today

Coxing is Frozen Solid...Even the Falls

Foothills House is Closed for Collecting

Nope.

Wood Turtles in the Coxing

While collecting creatures on a somewhat chilly morning down at the Coxing, Cathy (another educator in our department) and I stumbled upon something 'yellow' amongst the brown leaf litter in the Coxing Kill. After moving a bunch of the leaves around, we discovered NOT ONE...but TWO turtles. Unfortunately, we did disturb the two doing some 'intimate' activities, which caused them to separate and escape their separate ways. Got some photos of them and released them on their merry way. After some research we discovered they were Wood Turtles. I had never seen them that large before. Still a cool find.

TheChristyBel

Female (left) and Male (Right) Wood Turtles

Beautiful Shells

Sorry We Disturbed

The King of the Coxing

Meet the Kind Crayfish of the Coxing Kill
(a find during my creature collecting for Pond Keepers)