In nature this event was simply one more struggle for survival, where the victor(s) got the spoils, I got a few nature journal photos and slight sunburn.


Sadly the loser is the soft-shelled turtle who lays from 4 to 22 eggs. By my count 17 eggs had been pilfered during the 2 plus hours siege observed before I left at 5:45 PM., with over an hour of very good daylight still remaining for the crows to continue.


On returning the next day the nest site was found more heavily disturbed with multiple holes, where there had been but one hole the day before.


There’s probably every chance that the turtle nest was completely emptied, if not by the crows then by another marauder of the woods.


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