Nature Done Wright

    In the image above, there are five eggs. Can you identify them?

    Clue #1: The three brownish round ones were found in the mulch pile in the Celery Farm parking lot.

   Clue #2: The roundish white egg, slightly smaller than a Ping Pong ball,  and the bigger bluish once came from my pocket: They are replicas from an outfit called Bone Clones.

    The answers: The three little eggs are snapping turtle eggs.

    The whitish one is a screech owl egg replica.

    And the light bluish one is a great blue heron egg.

    Raccoons or other night creatures raided our backyard the other night and dug up (and ate) some 50 snapping turtle eggs.

   Judging from our dug-up front yard, side yard and back yard, the snapping turtles’ strategy appears to be to lay eggs everywhere and hope that some hatch.