And the snappers and box turtles are definitely on the spring move here in the southern part of heaven otherwise known as North Carolina. I have 40 miles of country two lane roads to drive to and from work. The past 2, maybe 3 weeks, I see anywhere from 3 to 8 snappers and box turtles crossing the highway on my daily commute. If I stopped for all of them, I'd never get to work! Narrowly missed a snapper this morning. On-coming traffic so I was limited in how much I could swerve to miss it, and wasn't sure I had until the car didn't go bumpbang-bumpbang. Noticing over the past couple of years that people are more careful about not running over turtles - haven't seen any roadkill turtles this year so far- pretty remarkable. Seems folks still go out of their way to run over snakes, however.

I ran over a squirrel this evening. Absolutely unavoidable unless I was prepared to die instead. I hate having to make that choice, but don't regret the choice.