baby turtles!

during an afternoon run, I spotted something unusual on the road; it was a baby snapping turtle! Excited by the discovery, I ran back to the station to grab my camera and take pictures. Eventually, I found 4 babies on a 100-m stretch, all of them with dirt on their shell and their egg tooth still prominent on their beaks. They most certainly just hatched nearby. Very rarely you get the chance to see turtles at such a young age: I was delighted! (here's a picture; to get an idea of their size, they were smaller than a regular wristwatch).