Spring

Well, today i went down the dam to watch the turtles and give them a little bit of food. as usual, they all turned up (all 30 or so) and enjoyed their miniature feed. Then, as i was watching the turtle heads popping up and dissapearing in the water, i noticed a very little head, attatched to a tiny little shell. I'd seen this little baby a few times before, though never this close, cause its extremly cautious (can you blame it?) but today it was as bold as the adult murrays, and was climbing over the adults backs to get food. I decided to pick it up, because i generally keep a vague eye on the condition of the wild turtles (shell, brightness of eyes etc), and watch them to see how they behave naturally. This baby (well, not a very young hatchy, id guess about 3-4 months old. bout the size turt (ma turdle) was at that age) seems to be perfectly healthy with a beautiful (and might i add, algae covered) strong shell. I took some photos of her/him and put him/her back in the dam. she/he kinda swam about 30cm away from me, stuck her/his head up, looked around, and swam off. he/she was so cute :lol: here are some pics of the babe!










and just for fun, two turtles racing for food




Today's actually been pretty eventful, considering the baby animals ive seen today. i was feeding the baby magpies at out place, and the parents kept following me waiting for a feed (neither pair attacks me, i hand feed them and can tell them apart. lol. they follow me, waiting for food. they'd let me touch their chicks if i wanted to) and i rescued a baby plover from a drain, which was lucky that i heard it. it was so cute.. when i went to return it to its parents, i went within about 20m or so of the adults, put the chick on the ground and waited for a mo, to watch the reaction of the parents (they started with 4 chicks, now only have two, the idiots in our school must kill them or something) and the chick was cold, so kept trying to climb back onto my hand. was absolutly gorgeous little bird.. to get it from teh drain i had to lift the steel cover off and go into teh drain to get it.. lmao.. but once i put the chick down i walked another 20m or so away to watch what the parents would do, incase they attacked it (didnt think they would) and one of them came straight over to the chick and started brooding it (tucked the chick under its wings to warm it up) so yeah. ive been guarding these birds for ages, ask ben, amy, frullet, charnstar and carl rofl. its the only time i lose my shyness; when i see someone harrasing/hurting animals.. its surprising how scary i can apparently be. ah well, dont harrass/hurt animals and your safe! (i scared the hell outa these two guys yesterday afternoon, cause they were kicking the parents and harrasiing them... )

ah well, ill shuddup and stop raving about animals now, i kno not too many people actually care about them