An Incredible Week of Ontario Herping (Part 2)
Again, it has been far too long since my last post. Especially considering this is a continuation of it. I apologize to those of you who were expecting it sooner. I guess sometimes life gets busy and you lose track of time! Anyhow, in the last post I left you off ending my trip to Pelee Island where we saw an incredible array of species. With a special highlight being the 3 Blue Racers! If you haven't read the first part I strongly encourage you to go back and read it before this one (here is the link: https://herpingontario.blogspot.ca/2017/10/an-incredible-week-of-ontario-herping.html ). So now we are off the island, fueling up the car for the 3 hour drive home. Taylor and I get to talking and start discussing places we will be passing on the drive home. And before you know it, we of course have a herp detour planned. We set off to the county of Middle Essex in search for an endangered turtle. A week or so before this, I had previously seen over 13 adult Spiny Softshell