Sky's Box Turtle

Sky hunted on the bank behind the house earlier this week until she came up with this your box turtle. She was very gentle and brought it right to me; however, given enough time she likes to try to chew on their shells.

I decided to give the little turtle a break and put him in the agility yard. The cat came to investigate but was not nearly as impressed with him as Sky was. Overnight he (it??) made it's escape, to be hunted up again another day I am sure lol!

Spring Walk Mar 24 2012



Today we took a walk in the Cornelius Nature Garden near Lake Junalusaka, Sky found the tweetie birds and squirrels nearly irresistible!

I am not certain what these little yellow flowers are but they were beautiful and abundant. There were also some trillium getting ready to bloom. Although early, it has been a very colorful Spring, luckily we have not yet had a cold snap to damage the blooms.

For those of you who are members of the WCA you may recall the story of Bill Hall's Weim finding his son's lost tortoise. Sky is also cracker jack at locating box turtles of all varieties, but she wants to pick them up and take them home with her. Sorry Sky, this one needs to stay where we found it!

Beautiful point, but not certain if this is another turtle or could possibly be where some wild turkey had been earlier. I watch a flock of about 15 amble up the mountain as we approached, had it not been for the barb wire fence between us and them we would have wandered after them to see if Sky is a turkey dog, not worth the risk though. All in all, it was a lovely day to be out with Sky.