Wapello County fair saturday, June 18, 7:30pm
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It Makes a Person Wonder There are plenty of places with nice soft dirt where a turtle could dig a hole and lay her eggs. It makes a person wonder why she would choose the side of the driveway with packed down gravel and clay. It would have to be quite a job to make a hole big enough to deposit her clutch, but that is what she chose to do. My wife and I were driving down the road that leads to the lake when we noticed a painted turtle right at the edge of the road. She was about six inches across and still had moss covering her shell from the trip out of the moss beds at the waters edge. On closer examination, we saw she was busily hollowing out a hole with her hind legs. She did not seem bothered by our presence, but after a short time, we left so she could continue undisturbed. We went out to the timber to check the one camera we have set up on a major deer trail. Of the one hundred and twenty-nine pictures on it, most were pictures of pregnant does. They are looking fat and happy. They will be having fawns any (Outdoors cont’d on pg 2)
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