I was in the backyard this afternoon admiring the crabgrass and noticed the egg below in a Queen palm tree. It's about the size of a ping pong ball and has something in it. The egg was in the nook of a branch that had been trimmed last year. The egg is soft and smooth to the touch. SWMBO insists it's a snapping turtle. If so how did it get in the tree. We had wind gusts up to 38 mph last week. I'm at a total loss as to what it is.
Any thoughts?
Snake?
Search snapping turtle eggs and yours looks just like it.
FL/GA PLS., post: 376777, member: 379 wrote: If so how did it get in the tree.
Could a bird (crow) have put it there?
Reptilian. Probably from one of those places a couple lightyears away that are in need of a new home on a new orb.
Watched Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds on TV a few nights ago. Can you tell?
Some kind of reptilian overlord??
Take it into a funeral pyre with you. See if you emerge naked with a baby dragon...
Stephen Ward, post: 376778, member: 1206 wrote: Snake?
That's what I thought at first. But its too large. We have an eastern indigo residing somewhere in the back yard. I'm not a aficionado by any means but I'm thrilled it lives here. Main reason is they eat rattlesnakes.
😉
Dan B. Robison, post: 376788, member: 34 wrote: Some kind of reptilian overlord??
Dan, I'll send it to you and you can hatch it. 😉
Gromaticus, post: 376789, member: 597 wrote: Take it into a funeral pyre with you. See if you emerge naked with a baby dragon...
YOU can take it into a funeral pyre. I have reason to believe that when I die there will be plenty of fire where I'm going! :whistle:
Mark Mayer, post: 376799, member: 424 wrote: It may not be an egg but what we, in Oregon, call an Oak Apple
I have never heard of an "Oak Apple " until now. Thanks!
Thanks y'all for the replies. B-)
FL/GA PLS., post: 376805, member: 379 wrote:
Thanks y'all for the replies. B-)
Please let us know what you get, when it hatches.
How did it taste?
lmbrls, post: 376927, member: 6823 wrote: How did it taste?
probably like a Ping-Pong ball with some stump water in it....
paden cash, post: 376934, member: 20 wrote: probably like a Ping-Pong ball with some stump water in it...
I didn't think y'all in Oklahoma knew what a ping pong ball was. Always thought hopes of indoor plumbing was the main area of concern. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 376991, member: 379 wrote: I didn't think y'all in Oklahoma knew what a ping pong ball was. Always thought hopes of indoor plumbing was the main area of concern. 😉
I was in the 6th. grade before I realized that Momma Cash's favorite go-to paddling device was actually meant for fun & games...she also like flyswatters and rolled up magazines. My father use to brag that she could probably bear hunt with a switch.
Personally I look back and think she might have had a betterchance with a chair and a whip like a circus lion tamer....
paden cash, post: 376992, member: 20 wrote: Momma Cash's favorite go-to paddling device was actually meant for fun & games...she also like flyswatters and rolled up magazines.
You're lucky, my Mama would just grab the first thing she could get her hands on, be it a belt, baseball bat, soup ladle, tire iron or whatnot. Of course I had already hauled ass by the time she was ready to mame me. Then I went to parochial school.
FL/GA PLS., post: 377051, member: 379 wrote: . Of course I had already hauled ass by the time she was ready to mame me.
My parents made sure we knew running only made it worse...
Dan B. Robison, post: 377078, member: 34 wrote: My parents made sure we knew running only made it worse...
You had to come back sometime...
That's the truth. Nobody else wanted to pay to feed me.
RADAR, post: 377089, member: 413 wrote: You had to come back sometime...
Of course, but I learned early that if you are gone for say 6 or 8 hours they calm down and realize what a joyous gift to their lives I have been. :whistle:
So by the time I moseyed on home the consequences for whatever dastardly adolescent crime I had committed had been forgotten or severely reduced.
B-)
BTW; egg is in solo cup filled with semi-damp soil. SWMBO won't let me bring it in the house.
FL/GA PLS., post: 377120, member: 379 wrote: ...BTW; egg is in solo cup filled with semi-damp soil. SWMBO won't let me bring it in the house.
SWMBO probably knows best...no tellin' what could pop out of that thing.
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