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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 109010" data-attributes="member: 1305">MSA That would be true here but the only water that the turtles trade back and forth with is the drainage ditch and the fence on that normally stops the snappers from getting to the lake. The painted turtles can squeeze under it till they get about full sized but snappers are generally blocked from a fairly early age. The ditch drying up sent tons of turtles for a walk this spring and clearly some of the bigger ones found a way in most likely from where third street crosses the ditch since both myself and a neighbor saw snappers up on the street over there at different times. The lake has fairly clear water so spotting them is much easier then it normally is in the dirty water they prefer so it doesn't take long to figure out something is up. One odd thing I noticed is when the snappers showed up most of the painted turtles left.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /> the lake is small to start with and in reality only a small strip on the edge of it is suitable for them especially with the extreme thermocline that sets up about 10 feet down. Below that no cold blooded creature is going to want to spend much time. Hell the local emergency dive team doesn't like to go down there it's so cold.- - - Updated - - -And they are not part of the lake.....this is only the second time they have shown up in the lake in the 30 years we have had a place on it.</blockquote>

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