The Library sees an Alligator Snapping Turtle migrate every spring to Rings Pond, and every fall back to the woods. She has already migrated to Rings Pond earlier this year. A second one (perhaps the same as in the pix) showed up last year and we think it might be a male who's visiting "Allie", then returning home. Last year 'he' had to be physically removed from beneath a patron's car by another patron and was not a happy turtle, by any means! "Allie" has been making 'her' annual migration for years and has become a library mascot of sorts!

The plot thickens. Surely someone at the nature museum could straighten out which turtle is who. I would point out though, that the specimen above (and presumably Allie) doesn't appear to be an alligator snapping turtle -- rather a Common snapper. The alligator turtle has a much different shell and can grow to be much larger (although this one is very large for a Common Snapping Turtle).