Anxiety sets in.
SO. Turt3 has been out now for 3 days and has made a nice little burrow for herself. After the second day of surveys with almost no turts visible in the reservoir, the decision was made to try and do a drag and catch anyone who might still be in there. 3 hours and 4 turtles later, the feeling that we missed the chance to catch a few more before they migrated out is verified by the lack of turts caught. We did, however, nab turt6 whose transmitter has been dead for a week now. And now we also know why his transmitter was dead....
I took the liberty of freeing him of the burden. So now we have 1 male left (the beast) still wearing a transmitter, the other 6 are girls.
and now he looks like this, instead.
There were definitely a few more turts hunkered down under the willow, but we still have no good methodology for capturing those guys. An 08 hatchling was also seen up under the willow.
Labels: tag transmitter faulty broken holes chipped dead kaput bu-bye
posted by Janeothejungle @ 7:18 PM
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It figures that everything would go down while Hawk and I were out of town. It sounds like you were able to handle the business. Sorry I could not be there to help.
I just realized that not only were Hawk and I gone, but we had several other turtle crew members with us as well (Donnie, Russel, Ramon and Kim). I suspect there was a leak and someone tipped off the turts that we would be leaving for four days. Donnie!
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