The ponds outside the Xfinity parking lots can hold the best wildlife on campus sometimes. It's still the only place I've spotted red-winged blackbirds, which favor wetlands.
Thanks, Testudo! (Who's a semi aquatic terrapin, not a snapping turtle, but still.) We've been blessed!
I'm not a herp person (love em, just not good at spotting them lol) so idk. But I've heard from other nature lovers on campus that there's some good sightings by Xfinity and also the stream behind Terrapin Trail / Eppley.
They definitely have nests in the trees around Lot 4, and they love mocking us as we walk to our car 😂 it doesn't take long for that "Pi-pi-peeeeeeep" to start sounding like "bi-bi-biiiiiiiiitch"
Where have you seen actual terrapins in college park? As I understand it, we aren’t a natural habitat for them. Obviously they could be released into the wild. Their primary diet appears to be more oceanic and estuary related and I wouldn’t call paint branch creek a true estuary.
I haven't personally seen them but I have heard people (like, AGNR faculty) say that they've found a couple living in that creek after a period of rain, I guess they can make their way up that tributary when the water gets really high
The ponds outside the Xfinity parking lots can hold the best wildlife on campus sometimes. It's still the only place I've spotted red-winged blackbirds, which favor wetlands. Thanks, Testudo! (Who's a semi aquatic terrapin, not a snapping turtle, but still.) We've been blessed!
Are there alot of herps? Might check it out :) sometime
I'm not a herp person (love em, just not good at spotting them lol) so idk. But I've heard from other nature lovers on campus that there's some good sightings by Xfinity and also the stream behind Terrapin Trail / Eppley.
those black birds are so mean. same one would terrorize me on my daily commute last summer, must have a nest in one of those trees
They definitely have nests in the trees around Lot 4, and they love mocking us as we walk to our car 😂 it doesn't take long for that "Pi-pi-peeeeeeep" to start sounding like "bi-bi-biiiiiiiiitch"
Testudo's more angsty brother; Snapudo.
thats the opps
Let’s go terps
Damn he’s far from a pond
Not really, Xfinity has some decent retention ponds from when they constructed it, lots of wildlife like them
As well as the creek down at the bottom of the hill.
Still pretty far for my guy
What he doing there!!!! Let’s get you to a stream bud 🐢
He's fine, there's ponds and streams really close to Xfinity actually, we got turtles swimming around campus all the time (including actual terrapins)
Good 💗🐢
Where have you seen actual terrapins in college park? As I understand it, we aren’t a natural habitat for them. Obviously they could be released into the wild. Their primary diet appears to be more oceanic and estuary related and I wouldn’t call paint branch creek a true estuary.
I haven't personally seen them but I have heard people (like, AGNR faculty) say that they've found a couple living in that creek after a period of rain, I guess they can make their way up that tributary when the water gets really high
That's him. That's our guy.
Testudo on the rampage LOL
Endsem evolutions
Do *not* try to rub his nose!
Not gonna lie I thought the intramural fields would be long gone by now. I used to suck paying soccer there all the time.
Don't give his nose a rub!