Turtle laying season

June 14. 

At Dugan Desert many fresh turtle-tracks. They generally steer for some more elevated and perhaps bushy place. The tail makes ' a serpentine track, the tracks of the flippers and claws quite distinct, and you see where the turtle rested on its shell, flatting the sand, from time to time. 

You can easily trace one to where the sand has been disturbed, and dig up its eggs, as I did, - six eggs, about two and a half to three inches deep.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 14, 1860

Fresh turtle-tracks. You can easily trace one to where the sand has been disturbed, and dig up its eggs. See June 14, 1853 ("On the Strawberry Hill on the further side of White Pond, about fifty feet above the pond and a dozen rods from it, found a painted tortoise laying her eggs. . . .. There were three eggs already laid, the top of them hardly two inches below the surface.")