PotW: Snapping Turtle
Ben and I went for a lovely bike ride on Friday along the Gateway trail, which starts in St. Paul and heads northeast out towards Wisconsin. We saw lots of wildlife — all sorts of song and water birds, squirrels, rabbits, a deer, and this snapping turtle. She was in the middle of the bike path and was apparently contemplating crossing the major road before her. I tried picking her up and moving her to the nice-looking wetlands she had apparently just left. She didn’t want any of that, thrashing and trying to bite. I had to put her down to keep from dropping her, and so we left her here, at the edge of the bike path. When we biked the return leg of our trip, she was nowhere to be seen (and there was no mushed turtle in the road either).