A little update

When I first saw this yesterday, I thought it was a mushroom and went about my business. A while later, I realized two things.
1) There is probably a fire ant colony in the mulch of this watermelon hill.
2) It was not a mushroom, but a turtle egg; because now it was covered in ants helping themselves to the unexpected meal.

Turtles from the bayou come over to lay their eggs in the pasture or yard if we let the grass grow much. Crows and ravens are quick to dig the eggs out. I am guessing that there were probably two crows fighting over this egg and it got dropped on the watermelon hill.
Today, it looked like this. All cleaned out.

Found another eaten egg out under the Stewart pecan tree.

Don't think we've ever seen any of them hatch; but if they hatch at night, we wouldn't see them anyway.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

P.S. Blogger is being a brat and not showing me any blogs. Going to try clearing my cache and hope that works...