Snapping Turtle

I love baby turtles and have always wanted to find a snapping turtle! One day I was walking on our woods trail after a heavy rain, and I started scooping in the mud with my net and noticed some of the mud was moving.....then I saw this BABY, a snapping turtle! Snapping turtles will eat just about anything that swims or floats by, including, fish, worms, snakes, waterfowl, plants, you name it. Even at his small size if I'm not careful he was go after my fingers! Last year when we first moved into our new house, we saw a snapping turtle take down a full sized goose. Snapping turtles are often bedding into the muck around the edge of the pond and often unseen, so you have to be careful around the water's edge.