Red-eared Slider [Believed Missing] LbNA #16222 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 2, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Arlington |
| County: | Tarrant |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Urban Letterboxer  |
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| Found by: | zboxers |
| Last found: | Dec 26, 2006 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 2, 2005 |
What IS a Red-eared Slider?
The Red-Eared slider is a turtle that lives in ponds and streams.
The top of the shell (carapace) is smooth and gently curved and is olive to black with yellow stripes and bars. It is a medium -sized turtle that is best identified by a red or sometimes yellow patch that is found just behind its eye.
The Red-eared Slider is almost exclusively aquatic. It rarely ventures out of the water except to lay its eggs or to migrate to a new water body, should the need arise. As a water dweller, the adult turtle feeds primarily on aquatic plants. Young turtles are mostly carnivorous, gradually switching to vegetation as they age.
Finding the Red-eared Slider
Starting Point: SE corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr., Arlington TX
Parking Options
Nights and weekends: Park in the UTA parking lot on the SE corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr. To reach the parking lot entrance, turn east at the intersection of Cooper St. and Mitchell St. At the 1st light, turn left on a one way street. Stay left. The entrance to the parking lot is on the left approximately 10 yards before Nedderman.
Days: Park in the parking lot on the NW corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr. (turn west on Nedderman. There may be a fee associated with this lot. OR continue on Nedderman and park at the meters on the west side of the street.
1. Just south of the intersection of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr., there is a large black sign that says: Davis Hall, Texas Hall, Parking Garage, Library.Stand on the sidewalk to the east of this sign.
2. Walk SE on the sidewalk
3. Take the 1st sidewalk on the right
4. Turn on the 1st sidewalk on the left. You will be walking along Turtle Creek.
5. Pass a brick stepping stone bridge.
6. Walk under a pedestrian bridge. Look up to see the swallow mud nests.
7. Find your way up onto the middle of the pedestrian bridge. Look down to see Red-eared Sliders, Spiny Softshell, and Snapping turtles and swallows flying under the bridge.
8. Take a compass reading of 59 degrees. You will see the two tallest trees – Sweet Gum Trees*.
9. Retrace your steps off the bridge and head to the Sweet Gum Trees. (After walking to the end of the bridge, turn right, then go down the sidewalk on the right. Turn left along the rock wall.)
10. Two paces beyond the 2nd Sweet Gum tree look for a vertical water connection on the left and a sprinkler head on the ground in front of the wall.
11. Your Red-eared slider is hiding under a large flat rock (14” x 9”) in the vined area slightly in back of the retaining wall.
*You will know these by their star-shaped leaves (in summer, anyway).
Bring your own ink pad and pen/pencil.
[The Red-eared Slider has a "police record" after a groundskeeper saw someone rehide him. UTA Police were called in and confiscated the Slider. After learing about LB-ing, the chief of police "pardoned" the Slider and agreed to let him return to his original location with this caveat: If LB-ers are approached by any UTA employee while in the act of letterboxing, they are to explain and say "that approval has been gained from the UTA Police Dept."] Happy Boxing!
The Red-Eared slider is a turtle that lives in ponds and streams.
The top of the shell (carapace) is smooth and gently curved and is olive to black with yellow stripes and bars. It is a medium -sized turtle that is best identified by a red or sometimes yellow patch that is found just behind its eye.
The Red-eared Slider is almost exclusively aquatic. It rarely ventures out of the water except to lay its eggs or to migrate to a new water body, should the need arise. As a water dweller, the adult turtle feeds primarily on aquatic plants. Young turtles are mostly carnivorous, gradually switching to vegetation as they age.
Finding the Red-eared Slider
Starting Point: SE corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr., Arlington TX
Parking Options
Nights and weekends: Park in the UTA parking lot on the SE corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr. To reach the parking lot entrance, turn east at the intersection of Cooper St. and Mitchell St. At the 1st light, turn left on a one way street. Stay left. The entrance to the parking lot is on the left approximately 10 yards before Nedderman.
Days: Park in the parking lot on the NW corner of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr. (turn west on Nedderman. There may be a fee associated with this lot. OR continue on Nedderman and park at the meters on the west side of the street.
1. Just south of the intersection of Cooper St. and Nedderman Dr., there is a large black sign that says: Davis Hall, Texas Hall, Parking Garage, Library.Stand on the sidewalk to the east of this sign.
2. Walk SE on the sidewalk
3. Take the 1st sidewalk on the right
4. Turn on the 1st sidewalk on the left. You will be walking along Turtle Creek.
5. Pass a brick stepping stone bridge.
6. Walk under a pedestrian bridge. Look up to see the swallow mud nests.
7. Find your way up onto the middle of the pedestrian bridge. Look down to see Red-eared Sliders, Spiny Softshell, and Snapping turtles and swallows flying under the bridge.
8. Take a compass reading of 59 degrees. You will see the two tallest trees – Sweet Gum Trees*.
9. Retrace your steps off the bridge and head to the Sweet Gum Trees. (After walking to the end of the bridge, turn right, then go down the sidewalk on the right. Turn left along the rock wall.)
10. Two paces beyond the 2nd Sweet Gum tree look for a vertical water connection on the left and a sprinkler head on the ground in front of the wall.
11. Your Red-eared slider is hiding under a large flat rock (14” x 9”) in the vined area slightly in back of the retaining wall.
*You will know these by their star-shaped leaves (in summer, anyway).
Bring your own ink pad and pen/pencil.
[The Red-eared Slider has a "police record" after a groundskeeper saw someone rehide him. UTA Police were called in and confiscated the Slider. After learing about LB-ing, the chief of police "pardoned" the Slider and agreed to let him return to his original location with this caveat: If LB-ers are approached by any UTA employee while in the act of letterboxing, they are to explain and say "that approval has been gained from the UTA Police Dept."] Happy Boxing!