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❤️❤️❤️ I always give them a thank you scritch when I help the little guys cross.![]() ![]() We had some visitors overnight on Monday. We weren't able to reunite with Mom. While I wanted to keep them, there were too many and too young, so I took them to Pros.
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This is your casual reminder to make it a priority to carve out deliberate intentional time with your partner. My wife and I spend a lot of time together at home and we enjoy going out with friends and being social, but we’re about to conclude a week and a half long international trip together and it’s been such a treat just to cut out all of the background noise of daily life and enjoy spending time with her as my soul mate and best friend. Even if it’s just a date night here and there, show up and let them know that they matter and how much they mean to you.
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Good lil older cat was losing a lot of weight & ultrasound showed a treatable stomach cancer, she’s been on meds for a week and a half and is already a much happier kitty devouring three cans of food a day and being more spry climbing furniture to watch birds.
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It’s not that magical time of year just yet, but we’re getting close to sea turtle hatching season! I’ll post the pics as I get them. Our first nest comes into the hatch window this week, but those tend to run a little long. Early august, we’re off to the races (with up to 6 nests coming into their window on the same day ![]()
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Icon Of Sin posted:It’s not that magical time of year just yet, but we’re getting close to sea turtle hatching season! I’ll post the pics as I get them. Our first nest comes into the hatch window this week, but those tend to run a little long. Early august, we’re off to the races (with up to 6 nests coming into their window on the same day I always share the turtle posts with the wife. They always make her smile.
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Icon Of Sin posted:It’s not that magical time of year just yet, but we’re getting close to sea turtle hatching season! I’ll post the pics as I get them. Our first nest comes into the hatch window this week, but those tend to run a little long. Early august, we’re off to the races (with up to 6 nests coming into their window on the same day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
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Kinda dorky but yesterday I mowed the lawn and used subtle forced perspective to make my yard seem longer:![]() And it made me really happy
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Big step from a little buddy! 🥰![]()
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Hell yes
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Icon Of Sin posted:Big step from a little buddy! 🥰 How many in that batch?
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Icon Of Sin posted:Big step from a little buddy! 🥰 ![]() Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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ASAPI posted:How many in that batch? It was a huge day for nest excavations (5 total), but we only had 3 little ones to show for it. Everyone else had already crawled out, and 2 of the nests only had empty eggshells left ![]()
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Icon Of Sin posted:It was a huge day for nest excavations (5 total), but we only had 3 little ones to show for it. Everyone else had already crawled out, and 2 of the nests only had empty eggshells left Good news, even if you didn't get to see them. Edit: Turtle season is my favorite season, because it means you'll be making posts in this thread ![]()
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Torrannor posted:Good news, even if you didn't get to see them. Yea, they’re doing great here. Every year I’ve been here (aside from my first) has been the 2nd highest season we’ve ever had. They just keep outdoing themselves slightly every year. It’s a lot of work, but those awkward little dudes are just too cute.
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Torrannor posted:Good news, even if you didn't get to see them. Just the other day I was telling the wife there will likely be baby turtle pictures soon. She also enjoys turtle season posting.
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There should be a gif here, if there’s not can someone fix it? https://i.imgur.com/ZOmt9G1.mp4
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Icon Of Sin posted:There should be a gif here, if there’s not can someone fix it? No gif is showing but there is a wonderful video clip.
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Mr. Nice! posted:No gif is showing but there is a wonderful video clip. Sweet! They’re kind of one and the same in my head ![]()
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Icon Of Sin posted:Sweet! They’re kind of one and the same in my head Basically, but the video has audio. ![]() ![]()
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Icon Of Sin posted:There should be a gif here, if there’s not can someone fix it? Love me some turtles, hell yeah good vibes
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Look at him go! The young ones at least are not stereotypically slow as a turtle.
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omg yes
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https://i.imgur.com/shiyyGf.mp4![]() I came across this little guy this morning, and hung out nearby until he made it to the water
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I love your turtle posts. Never stop never stopping posting them
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love your turtle posts.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love your turtle posts.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love your turtle posts.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love your turtle posts.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love your turtle posts.
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Different than my normal faire, but still fun. We’re in the middle of rare plant surveys (in addition to all things bird/turtle here), and apparently this plant that grows everywhere here is rare across the rest of this state’s coastline? Either way, have some beach morning glory that’s still wearing the morning’s raindrops ![]() ![]()
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Little dudes are popping off left and right at this point ![]() So, someone misidentified a nesting crawl as a false crawl (where the turtle went through all the trouble of hauling herself out of the water, but didn’t leave eggs for whatever reason). Through absolute sheer dumb luck, me and a different coworker stumbled upon it while digging on another turtle’s track that we suspected of being a nest. The eggs had been underground for about a month at that point, and relocating them at that time during their incubation usually ends in disaster (aka none hatch). The eggs develop their own vasculature (more or less) and any disturbance to the eggs can disrupt that pretty easily, and the embryo inside will just stop developing. But they were in a place on the beach that would end in disaster anyways (routinely overwashed, and the eggs need to stay dry so oxygen can get inside), so we moved the nest as careful as we could to a safer spot. I haven’t seen how many total eggs there were for that nest, but we counted over 40 little tracks crawling out of it over the last few days, and some of the hatchlings I released tonight were from that same nest ![]() ![]() https://i.imgur.com/OxPUGbS.mp4
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Icon Of Sin posted:
unironic Thank You For Your Service
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US Berder Patrol posted:unironic Thank You For Your Service
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crosspost from the GBS crab thread go lil' guy go
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Hermit crabs are cool.
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Godholio posted:Hermit crabs are cool.
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Godholio posted:Hermit crabs are cool.
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I was reading that if one is looking for a new shell and finds one that's too big, it'll wait around for a while to see if any other hermit crab comes around too. Because if the shell fits the new guy, his discarded shell might fit the original duder. You can end up with multiple hermit crabs hanging around for this reason, then everyone gets a new house once Cinderella comes along.
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