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Index of Subjects On 7/18/2011 8:25 AM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Yesterday evening around 7pm, we noticed a Painted Turtle digging > in our driveway. Unfortunately, we got a bit close before noticing, > so it moved away. This morning, it was at it again. > With the abundance of Racoons in our area, is there any advice > on how to best protect the nest? * it's said that a deposit of human urine on the completed nest site will olfactorily conceal the nest site from Coons and all; alternatively Turtle researchers make wire cages to protect nest sites. There's a discussion at http://turtle_tails.tripod.com/backyardturtles/byttour4.htm fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition - http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------
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