It's hard to miss all the aborted attempts by the painted turtles to dig nests, as evidenced by the holes along the trail edges. Perhaps they found the slate too hard to dig into. I came across this ransacked nest in the softer gravel of the railbed this morning. The leathery white shells can be seen in the lower portion of the shot. Last year I found ten nests destroyed, but it certainly didn't put any appreciable dent in the painted turtle population.
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