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I just noticed that there are a few wild blackberries growing right in front of him on the second pic. Do you have more growing in your yard? Because her in FL we have wild blackberries growing everywhere and box turtles will enjoy some fresh berries so that could also be attracting him into...

I live on a wild life preserve and I have raccoon's in my backyard almost every night getting into my trash cans. There is about 30 or so houses that are on the North edge of the preserve so the raccoon's are always out getting into peoples trash. There are also a bunch of wild cats that do the...

It is so cool seeing a wild box turtle in your backyard. I just recently started seeing a wild Florida Box Turtle in my backyard (the 1 in my avatar pic) and she even ended up laying eggs next to my house. I ended up attracting her a few weeks ago by accident by leaving a brush pile of sticks in...

You know you are exactly right! I have these huge grasshopper/locust things all over my backyard because of the swampy preserve behind my house. They are called Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers I think and I was reading that box turtles eat those big grasshoppers and locusts. And there's also a lot...

Yes it was truly lucky I just happened to leave a pile of tree limbs in the yard and it attracted a box turtle here at my house on the preserve. I have been living here for about 4 years and have never seen a box turtle in my backyard until now, but I have seen deer, turkey, armadillos, and I...

When I was growing up, we had about 5 pet box turtles that lived in our backyard. We lived in a normal residential neighborhood in the city with houses on both sides and behind us only separated by a normal chain link fence. Probably about 15 years ago (when I was about 10) we stopped seeing the...

It's so cool watching them in the wild / backyard lol. I live in Jacksonville, Fl and I just recently posted a thread with pics of a wild female Florida box turtle that laid eggs right next to my back deck and about 6 inches from the foundation bricks of the house!

So a few weeks ago I found a box turtle in the middle of my backyard sitting next to a pile of tree limbs I recently trimmed out a few days before. Then just a couple days ago I saw her again right next to the house after I cut the grass. She sat there and dug a hole for about an hour and then...