Return of the Turtle

This morning, much to our dismay, we discovered that the snapping turtle who fell in our window well last year was back for another visit. (Clarification: Brian, here - it appears that this is a much smaller cousin of the turtle that visited us last year. He's about half the size of the one that we had to deal with before. Luckily that made it a lot easier to handle.)

I was ironing in the basement and heard scratching on the window. Tucker was sitting on the sewing table by the window, so I assumed it was him... until I saw a large green head sticking up above the windowsill.

Brian heroically used a shovel and trash can to lift the turtle through the window into the basement and then deposited him across the road by the pond. Hopefully, it'll be another year or preferably longer before the turtle returns.