Marcsoltan - Jun 20, 2010 10:09 am - Voted 10/10
Well,I've never seen a beaver dam that looked like a big mound, but then again you never know. This could have been built by a beaver with a different way of thinking.
ZeeJay - Jun 20, 2010 10:45 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Well,That's their lodge, the tallest one I've ever seen. It's surrounded on all sides by water several feet deep. I wonder how they get that much mud out there.
lcarreau - Jun 21, 2010 12:14 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Well,They use their tails as shovels.
You "failed" to mention the moose. I would have noticed the moose long before I would have noticed the beaver lodge, but like Marc pointed out ...
Everybody has a special way of thinking.
ZeeJay - Jun 21, 2010 4:22 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Well,That's a moose? I thought it was a beaver.
lcarreau - Jun 21, 2010 10:35 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Well,Nope, here be a beaver:
They utilize their tail as a digging implement.
Gee Zee, you just learned another incredible fact, right here on the BIG SP !!!!!
ZeeJay - Jun 21, 2010 11:35 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Well,My bad, they are both brown.
Noondueler - Jun 21, 2010 12:16 am - Voted 10/10
Great shot!Interesting content. That algae seems to grow everywhere.
ZeeJay - Jun 21, 2010 4:24 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Great shot!Thanks! I'd rather have had nice flowering lily pads than the algae, but you can't have everything.
Noondueler - Jun 21, 2010 8:19 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!When I was a kid growing up in Florida we used to hunt and collect turtles for pets and they would hide in that algae.
lcarreau - Jun 21, 2010 10:30 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Were they "snapping" turtles ??? ?
Noondueler - Jun 21, 2010 11:50 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Snappers, musk, mud, red-eared terrapins, peninsula cooters, softshells (softshell are very fast and hard to catch) you name it! Even the occasional wood turtle, not to mention box turtles and gophers.
lcarreau - Jun 22, 2010 12:31 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Yeah. I saw several Box turtles in a small
creek north of Phoenix, AZ.
Softshells are cool! Don't they make
"turtle soup" using softshells in SE Asia?
I need to perform further research.
Noondueler - Jun 22, 2010 1:23 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!I doubt if you saw box turtles because they are land turtles. They don't swim. When threatened, they tuck head and feet in there hinged shell and close up shop completetely, tight as a drum. As for 'turtle soup' I'm not up on that. Further research is in order.
lcarreau - Jun 22, 2010 10:33 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!It was a Painted turtle.
Should have guessed .. a Painted turtle
setting up shop inside the Court of The
Crimson King. How quaint ...
Have you ever seen a Pond Slider? Cool critters !!!
Good luck on your research.
Noondueler - Jun 23, 2010 1:30 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Totally forgot about painted turtles! Left out sliders and map turtles as well.
Dean - Sep 4, 2010 11:01 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!How about turtle rock soup?
Click here
lcarreau - Sep 4, 2010 11:04 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Dean .....?
Like I said before: If 'Fogerty' can stop the rain, I can stop
thinking about painting the turtle!
Sorry, I mean beaver..
"Leave it to beaver!"
lcarreau - Sep 5, 2010 9:29 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Great shot!Conclusive question :
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood."
mrchad9 - Oct 30, 2010 6:07 am - Voted 10/10
Fantastic...Every spot in this photo has something interesting. Super!
ZeeJay - Oct 30, 2010 7:55 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Fantastic...Thanks!, that's one of my favorite pictures.
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