Since I’m feeling somewhat destructive, I thought I’d post a sequence depicting what happens when a several hundred pound pumpkin is dropped onto a trailer from 90 ft in the air. You may have to look closely; this was a popular event and I was unable to get as close as I wanted…
I found this midland painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) in an oxbow on the edge of the Jennings Woods property. This individual had only three legs, the fourth having apparently been gnawed off by a predator (or just a neighborhood dog). The turtle’s reduce mobility and the fact that it was a cool spring day made capturing the normally very skitish turtle much easier.