I was after mule deer sheds in one of my good areas as it was too windy to shoot but found a lot of other "sheds". No deer sheds but it is a low density area and I already know whats in there.

Desert tortoises make burrows in the sides of our desert washes and this area also happens to be loaded with them. My wife and I were not even trying and found 6 good ones in a 5 mile loop.

Thought some may get a kick of of them.

What's with the "white stripe" on three of them?

Sun took a bit of their top shell off...

Gotcha,thanks.

Nice find.

Racing stripes!

Happy B-Day Greg!!

What do you do with the shells??

around here prescribed burns reek havoc on box tortoises

Shells are in my backyard. Kind of like a shed pile -

Thanks for the well wishes -

These are not burned shells. I just was in an area with great desert tortoise habitat and I suspect since they are all about the same size they just died naturally.

We found a few live ones crawling around too -

That's a cool find! Where I deer/turkey hunt in IN is loaded with box turtles, but I've yet to find a shell 'unoccupied'.

you going to make some helmets?

Grin...

Nice little finds.

There's box turtles all over where I live and hunt.
Probably find an old shell every time I walk the woods. Seems like the longer they sit unoccupied the more of the colorful outside layer of shell comes off.
I once found one with both ends closed up and all the bones rattlin around inside.

Last week my landlord picked up a small set of moose sheds.

They weren't sheds until he shot the bull in the head, however.....

Kinda late for a moose to still be decorated , but this one was.