Author Topic: More of Turtle emjoying glorious California days agan (Read 2788 times)

Jerry · « **on:** February 27, 2008, 05:13:25 PM »

The plant to the right is sweet flag, thank you Mikey.

Soooo good to work outside inshorts again! Those funny things on the left must be my fingers! geesshh

Ky Kim · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2008, 05:37:24 PM »

Wish I was in that turtles spot, basking in the sun and warmth. Great shot! One question though, did ya have to rub it in saying you were wearing shorts. I'm jealous, we've had snow showers since yesterday. Then on Sunday suppose to be 58.

Kim

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2008, 05:41:12 PM »

Somebody got it right!

I've been busting buns trying to get everything in the garden ready for this heat wave while I go away for the week. The prep work never ends! I'll have get a pic of my turtles drying in the heatwave waiting for the sun to come over their way.

tranquility · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2008, 07:40:47 PM »

Jerry have you've been in the wobbly pop? the things on the left are rocks

.....turtle looks like he is lovin' the warmth from the sun....
Lawanna

Mikey · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2008, 08:50:32 PM »

Mine were enjoying the warm weather as well.....

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2008, 09:43:58 PM »

Mike you have turtles that know how to pose...or what?

That shot tells everything, how beautiful and hot it was today and how lucky they are to be in Mikey's pond!

My turtles will need lessons from your guys. Here are a few of them enjoying the heat after the sun went behind the trees. I took this picture from inside the house by a window right next to their aquarium (located outside). They don't care that I'm there or if I move around. Doesn't faze them but once I go outside they scramble even if I don't go near them!

Figure that one!

Holldoll · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2008, 09:50:28 PM »

Wow! I'm so jealous. I want a turtle so bad!!

Jerry · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:30:33 PM »

and I want a frog!

Bonnie · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:16:31 AM »

Love the pix all......
Curious what you do to keep them contained in the pond?

marla · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:20:50 AM »

Love the pictures, have had many turtles over the years before the ponds, non have wandered in, but frogs they are all over every year. Good ?? Bonnie, thought most people have problems with them wandering off. We had box turtles in the house as pets, they use to rip holes in the patio screen doors, to get out. If it had just rained you'd find them out in a puddle. The female one day either fell or walked off the deck and we never found her.

Jerry · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2008, 07:51:31 AM »

I try to cleverly make the pond escape proof. I lost a few rght away, since then I refined the rock placement and Have hod no escapes in maybe 4 years.

I think I need bigger haul out rocks so they need not bask alone. I nice flat piece of flagstone maybe.

Mikey · « **Reply #11 on:** February 29, 2008, 12:15:50 PM »

Bonnie: I just got mine late last summer from a neighbor so I have not really tested their wanderlust desires.... They can easily get out of the pond but my yard is pretty well contained and I don't think they could escape if they wanted. This year will be the true test.

Krista · « **Reply #12 on:** February 29, 2008, 04:20:04 PM »

great shots of all the turtles. Especially love the posed one!

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #13 on:** February 29, 2008, 05:32:33 PM »

Great turtle shots everyone but I'm with Jerry I WANT FROGS! My friend has a natural pond and when the ice is off up there I'm going egg huntting.

milliemax · « **Reply #14 on:** February 29, 2008, 06:27:17 PM »

I live in the lowlands and have many vernal ponds.
The frogs make a noise that visitors are frightened of! There are thousands of them! (frogs, not visitors)
We don't even notice the noise of the frogs during a rain, but visitors are freaked out asking what that HUGE noise is!!!!
Nancy

Jerry · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2008, 01:18:05 PM »

My escape proof pnd! Lo and behold, we spotted one well on the way to freedom, but he slipped, thank god. Freedom here would mean certain death. No water for many miles.

Bonnie · « **Reply #16 on:** March 01, 2008, 07:31:01 PM »

Don't know my turtles very well but two years ago I had either a painted or red slider in my fountain pond so I put it in my lower goldie pond... something was getting my goldies at the time and I thought it was the turtle so when it went missing I wasn't too upset at the time. BUT a couple of weeks later I noticed the bird from hell kept coming to the ponds so I'd just bet it was the culprit.

DD brought me home two babies that she caught at one of the local creeks so I put them in the lilypond and they escaped in no time.

Won't be long at all before I have way too many frogs and toads in the pond... And yes I throw out the toad eggs!

Julles · « **Reply #17 on:** March 02, 2008, 03:11:59 PM »

And here I go around to the drainage ditches and COLLECT toad eggs! And would REALLY like to get some frogs to stay around here. Some go in the pond, but others I hatch out and raise in 5-gallon tubs.

I have a turtle pen and pond, and this year have collected 5 hatchling stinkpots, and one AFRICAN SIDENECK - which is a really big deal, as I wasn't sure I had both sexes, let alone that they would reproduce in a non-native environment, let alone any of them hatching and then surviving, and then my happening to see it and catch it.

When I notice a next of turtle eggs (you can spot the newly-dug ground), I dig them up CAREFULLY and move them out of the turtle pen, to where the water turtles can hatch and make it to the koi pond quickly. Baby box turtles, well, I don't know where they go... somewhere in the yard. Maybe I'll find them eventually.

At any rate, all these babies, I have learned the hard way, not to mix them with the adults, as they would become dinner in no time. So, once the weather is stable and the pond expansion is finished, they'll be moved to the koi pond, where they will be safe for a year or two. Once they start bothering the fish, and once they're large enough, they'll be moved to the turtle pond.

maryvonne · « **Reply #18 on:** March 02, 2008, 08:25:18 PM »

Very nice turtle photos. They look pretty happy! I hope they stay in your ponds.

Ky Kim · « **Reply #19 on:** March 04, 2008, 12:57:12 PM »

I remember sending Jerry frog eggs....yes from KY to CA.

, remember that Jerry

.

Kim

Jerry · « **Reply #20 on:** March 04, 2008, 03:19:57 PM »

I do, they thrived and then took off for parts unknown. Thanks you

Double S · « **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2008, 08:57:14 AM »

We've had a RES here for 2 summers. We hope to see it again this spring! It just showed up one day and didn't leave (so far).

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2008, 11:01:39 AM »

I have frogs in my pond and plant water pots. I hear them croaking all night. The only frogs I see freely are the tadpoles. But once they become frogs they disappear until mating season rolls around beginning with the croaking. Most of the bigger tadpoles I catch go to the pond and the turtles - free food.

I would love to have a frog live in the pond and swim around or bask in the sun on a lily pad.....so idyllic

Jerry · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2008, 12:26:03 PM »

ME TOO !!

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2008, 12:42:14 PM »

I asked my friend if the ice was off up there on her natural pond yet and she laughed at me, :'( I guess that means NOT!

Bonnie · « **Reply #25 on:** March 11, 2008, 12:56:51 PM »

I remember that Kim but you forgot to tell him to put a leash on them.