This week Lake County had some quieter days trapping turtles on our field sites. However, we caught some of the most lovable turtles in our traps. Check out this juvenile Common snapping turtle and the Painted turtle twins.                                     [...]

We were excited to have some friends visit us this week! Maddy, the Walder Turtle vet student, joined us in Lake County to help us trap and track. We have ten telemetered turtles at one of our sites, and we sample them each once a month. This helps us see how their bloodwork changes over [...]

 What a week! We’ve examined many turtle friends, and the summer is really taking off. This past week Marg and I were back together on my favorite field site. It was such a delight seeing the various ponds and all the prairie plants blooming and growing. Outside of turtles, I also loved stumbling upon frogs, [...]

This week, we focused on trapping at a headstart release site. We found a bunch of Blanding’s there last year, and I was excited to see who we would re-trap! Javelis and I set out with 20 traps each and went to four different ponds. It was fun seeing new faces, such as Pineapple (who [...]

Hello, I’m Javelis! I’m the rising second year vet student joining Marg this summer in the Lake County Aquatic Team! It’s only been 2 weeks since we started, and I feel like I have already learned so much.   This week Marg and I joined the USDA in trapping and assessing turtles in one of our [...]

Back for another year of turtle work at Lake County! I miss my friend Varun but he is now a fourth year vet student and on rotations. This year I am with Javelis, a first year student who is no stranger to field work. It’s only been a couple days, but we are having a [...]