Episodes of heavy public visitation in key turtle habitats had served
to keep me from a return for some time; but on the 25th of August,
following the first sustained rain in months, I decided to look in on
wood and spotted turtle areas. I searched the nesting terrain of the
wood turtles and found no new evidence of [...]

This morning brought happier news than I have been able to record in
my notebook of the end of July, beginning of August. At 11:37 I
approached with great trepidation one of the sites I had noted as
being all but certainly
that of a completed wood turtle nest. To my finding of the previously
journaled three nests taken by [...]