TURTLE TRACKS
BONES TRACKS DAY ONE: Back in the wild for Bones!
Early on 9-2-07 I met Billy, the owner of the land where Bones lives, and his friends to drop Bones off back at his home. We quickly found a good spot, took a couple of photos and the short movie below and then set Bones free.
Bones sat for a time then crawled off into the woods and stopped at the base of a Rhododendron bush. We then left him to fend for himself and went back to our complicated human lives. Good luck Bones.
Release Day Stats
Date: 9-2-07
Release time: 9:25 am.
Release habitat: Edge habitat field/Rhododendron thicket approx. 20 feet from small stream.
Elevation: 809m
Humidity: 45%
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Early on 9-2-07 I met Billy, the owner of the land where Bones lives, and his friends to drop Bones off back at his home. We quickly found a good spot, took a couple of photos and the short movie below and then set Bones free.
Bones sat for a time then crawled off into the woods and stopped at the base of a Rhododendron bush. We then left him to fend for himself and went back to our complicated human lives. Good luck Bones.
Release Day Stats
Date: 9-2-07
Release time: 9:25 am.
Release habitat: Edge habitat field/Rhododendron thicket approx. 20 feet from small stream.
Elevation: 809m
Humidity: 45%
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Release Day Stats
Date: 9-2-07
Release time: 9:25 am.
Release habitat: Edge habitat field/Rhododendron thicket approx. 20 feet from small stream.
Elevation: 809m
Humidity: 45%
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Release time: 9:25 am.
Release habitat: Edge habitat field/Rhododendron thicket approx. 20 feet from small stream.
Elevation: 809m
Humidity: 45%
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Elevation: 809m
Humidity: 45%
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Temperature: 72F
Weather: Rain within 24 hours of release. P/C 50% chance afternoon T-showers.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Barometric Pressure: rising
Below is the first movie of Bones after his release with his radio transmitter attached.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
I'm sure Bones is very happy to be home especially after all the events of the last week or so...what events you may ask...well...
...here's the story, believe it or not!
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
On August 27 Bones escaped from the Earthshine turtle enclosure only a few hours before he was set to have his transmitter attached! Apparently he either climbed the fence or squeezed through a small hole that had formed during recent heavy rains. I was at a loss to his location so I called my friend John Rucker and asked him if he would like to bring his turtle retrieving dogs to Earthshine to hunt for Bones as well as other turtles for our research project. John was happy to assist and came over only two days later. Amazingly, John's incredible dogs found Bones only a couple of hours after they started looking for him! He was about 100 yards north of the lodge near the edge of the forest.
I can't thank John enough for bringing his wonderful dogs Buster, Sparky, Greta and Pup to Earthshine to locate our resident box turtles--and especially Bones. Without John and his dogs Bones would have been lost and would not have been able to have been returned to his home and this tracking project would never have gotten off of the ground.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Thank you John and canine friends!!
I would also like to thank my friend Alan Cameron who assisted John and his dogs with finding Bones and several other box turtles while I had to work. Thank you Alan for all your help!
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.
Here is a short movie of John's dogs in action finding box turtles at Earthshine Mountain Lodge.