and this cooter laid her eggs inside the hen house

at least she won't have to worry about crow & raccoon excavation

girls at work

cooters keep plowing into the chicken yard to lay their own eggs

under the mailbox, egglaying?

and this is the view from the other side; clever girl, picked a slope for leveraging her jumbo shell

not exactly private
were dug up & eaten by something within the afternoon

I was looking at that & then I saw this

I went out to get a picture of this guy

doing this (head in ground, removing eggs we had watched a turtle lay this afternoon, perhaps the last turtle layer of the summer)


and doing this with his turtle egg trophy


And I sat down next to this


and realized I was under the oak tree branch where

the barred owl had been hanging out a few nights this week , & obviously digesting