Here is a leatherback turtle that was laying eggs in our yard a couple of days ago. Don't know if she has been into my flowerbed but the crows were sure interested in her eggs as soon as she laid them. These turtles are as big as hubcaps out here. Very interesting. Lots of turtles on the move right now.

This is the turtle we caught eating my impatiens. We started picking the flower petals off his shell but then thought we would get a picture of the culprit with the evidence. Ha! Bad Turtle.

Turtles are eating my impatiens

I started out with a beautiful flower bed but the impatiens have been doing poorly at one side. The flowers have been disappearing from the stems and then the stems were being chopped off. I thought maybe there was a rabbit around although I haven't seen one this year. This "disease" has been slowly spreading from the south end to the north end. I couldn't find any evidence of insects. This is along the back side of my house so I thought it was odd. Now I could understand if there was a turtle living in the flower bed but we caught him red-handed, er, I mean, with impatien-breath. Ah ha!! Well, actually he was high-tailing across the lawn with impatien flowers all over his shell. I asked my daughter what she thought he was doing in the impatien bed. Well, that's obvious - eating them. Good grief - I guess he didn't care for the hostas, fatsias or sedum we had in there. Now what do I do to keep a turtle out aside from putting up a little fence which I think would be tacky. I like turtles, but I like impatiens too. We have had lots of turtles coming out of the lake to lay their eggs in our lawn. Another daughter took a picture of a leatherback turtle laying eggs in our lawn yesterday. A few minutes later, the crows were trying to get to the eggs. I thought all the holes I have been finding in the lawn were due to skunks trying to get at grubs. Life is different living on the lake.