Snapping turtles
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- June
- 5
There was a dead snapping turtle on Fishkill Road in Philipstown yesterday, its shell split open by a car or truck tire. It was one of two dead snapping turtles I’ve spotted in the past two days. Apparently, it’s that time of year, according to State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 
Most people only see them (snapping turtles) when the females leave the water in early summer to locate nesting sites where they lay between 20 and 80 ping pong ball-shaped eggs. Unfortunately, many of the pregnant females get hit by cars when crossing roads to reach their nesting sites.
If you want to see a live one, tomorrow presents a chance. It’s the annual snapping turtle walk at Boscobel, the Federal-style house and gardens overlooking the Hudson River in Garrison.
(Photo by TJN photographer Joe Larese.)
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on Friday, June 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am by Mike Risinit.
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