Be on the alert for egg-laying snapping turtles on the MRG behind the movie theaters on the “Miracle Mile”. Imagine the effort to get her cumbersome body up the slope from the river, and finding a diggable spot to lay her many eggs. Here is Dan Moriartys report from this morning:
“I approached the Steel Umbrella right next to the Hope Foundation side trail. There was a female snapping turtle looking around to where she was going to build a nest to lay her eggs. She was in the exact same location that I had taken a photo of a turtle laying eggs two years earlier on 5/26/2024.”
5/26/2024
The Mascoma River Greenway 