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Turt2, Where Are You?

Holy water surplus, batman. We may need a boat this season (ha).


So here is the 'what's what'. Turts #1 and #8 are kicking it in the HP swale with a 3rd unknown/untagged adult. Turt5 is still lurking in OM, with no real movement since last summer (wth?). Turts 4 and 7 are definitively in the ERes, caught a good look at 7 and her tag has almost no coloring left, it's shiny white. The signal for Turt4 has taken on a distinct mechanized tone that makes me think it's about to die on us. And Turt 3 is still in the willow thicket near the lower pumphouse, which is also currently home to a momma bobcat and her kittens. Please Tread Lightly and stay at least 10m away from the pumphouse, I'd rather not force her to move with kittens so young.

Turt2 is still an unknown, either her brand new tag is dead, or else she went walkabout and got out of our range very very quickly. Part of me hopes it's the latter, although I doubt it.

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K

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Belated 'Last Friday' Post

Well. The ERes is gi-noromous. The fullest I've ever seen it in my 4 years of tromping around the range. Thus, dialing in the basking trap is going to be key in catching turts 4 and 7 (both of whom need their tags replaced). So, with the difficulty of retagging this year, I took advantage of an opportunistic snag last friday to Tag Turt #8 (male). He was one of the boys whose tags failed at the beginning of last season, so hopefully, this year I've done a better job of 'bombproofing' his tag. I also retagged Turt 5, who is still lurking in OM (wtf?).
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Big Thanks to Kong for coming out, he's one of Blumenshine's aquatic eco kids who is going to be helping us out this season.