Reader Comments on VIDEO: Freshwater Turtles from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:22:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-07/interact/exclusives/turtles-video AMAZING - i remember many many years ago that when i had gone to work in Stamford, Conn. up in the Ridges area - my boss had moved his company into his home and - that a huge snapping turtle was in the middle of the dead end road - this turtle had just laid eggs in my boss's pond in back of the house - it took so long for this turtle to move wherever it was going - i guess it was tired - ANOTHER ONE - i live in Port Chester, NY along the Byram River and i happened to look out the kitchen sliding door and see a huge lump of something in the backyard at 7:00 a.m. - went down and out to the yard - i went very quietly and here was this turtle laying golf ball size eggs - came back home at lunch, she was covering up the hole - by the time i came home from work at 6:00 she was gone - quite some time later when i got up to look in the yard the babies had hatched and were gone all that was left were something like elastic eggshell casings and a ramp of dirt where they had crawled out of the hole AND she had crawled through a fence to get in my backyard - have pictures of this Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:11:33 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-07/interact/exclusives/turtles-video I would love to see pictures!!! Cassleigh531@aol.com Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:30:13 +0100