How did they get there? It seems that every body of water in the vicinity of The Little House has a population of painted turtles. As a boy one of my summer delights was spending a week at my cousin, Ronnie's, house. He, too lived on a farm but unlike our farm 'a river ran through it.' The Big Sioux River, which wasn't very big but was bigger than the Little Sioux in Iowa, actually ran through their pasture. That was a huge delight for boys becasue we could go fishing and swimming. Never mind the fact that cattle were pastured adjacent to the river.
Dwelling in the river were both painted and snapping turtles. Once we caught a huge snapping turtle on our fishing line. During those days in the 1950s there were no turtles near our farm nor near the little house. Now they're everywhere. So, how did they get there? Walking?, ever watched a turtle walk, was probably not the method of their dispersal. Do birds spread turtle eggs as they do fish eggs? It's a mystery to me. It all came to mind with International Turtle Day.
Takk for alt,
Al
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