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The painted turtle is the only turtle native to western Montana, though it is found throughout the state and the northwestern US and adjoining regions of Canada, the Great Plains, the Midwest, and northeastern US. They do well year-round, as long as their watery habitat does not freeze solid to the ground. They are an abundant and not threatened species.
The most brightly "painted" parts, besides the yellow stripes on their heads and necks, are on the plaston (bottom plate of the shell) but this photo does provide little glimpses of what lies beneath.
The turtles were sunning themselves in the shallows of Spring Creek beneath the footbridge. I had never seen them there before, and was delighted to have an interesting - and for me, rare - subject that moved "conveniently" slowly to photograph.
Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, Stevensville Montana
Kissimmee, Florida. May 2014
I can't tell you much about this guy other than what you see in the photo, but if anyone can help me with identification, I'd really appreciate it!
This Green male turtle was totally absorbed eating small pieces of what looke like sea grass, and was indifferent to our presence.
Sorry I'm a day late with the theme, but I hope everyone had a fun Valentine's Day! ;-)))
Pretty sure the turtle receiving the flower is a Red-eared slider.
Found this Painted Turtle after sunset. Living in Montana for 43 years, I've never run across one in the egg-laying process, but that's what she was either, A.) about to do, or, B.) had already done. The light was very poor and I didn't want to bother her, (though I have to say, she didn't move a muscle while I was there. I've heard that they may go into a kind of trance while they're doing this, and she sure seemed to be under some kind of spell.) I took a few shots, wished her and her offspring well, and left. Make the photo big and look at the muddy hole she'd prepared for the eggs. Her posterior hovers over it. It was far from roads and people and on land protected by the Ninepipe preserve, so I think her babies will have as fair a chance as they could have anywhere. Water wasn't too far off .. maybe 100 yards.
This guy was just hanging out on the trail. He seemed content to peek at me like that and never went all the way into his shell. After I left, he wandered off into the trees, presumably to do turtle things.
Tunnels Beach. Another view of the turtle; he/she is very comfortable with people; swam right next to me
This turtle didn't have a left eye. If you look closely, there's also a chunk of it's shell that's missing behind the left side of it's head.
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-->> Representing another interesting turning point in the 2003 series as the actually, somewhat short-lived, "futuristic" and lighter TMNT: FAST FORWARD line marked the start of a shift in the Toys and animated worlds of the Turtles. All of this was both praised and shunned by many fans of the show. Cut off by the TMNT 2007 film toy line, a whole wave of unreleased characters and fun Turtle variants never made it past TOY FAIR.
Another "alright" reproduction - this one was kind of hard to remove from the base. But it may have just been mine. Small paint apps are missing such as below the knee. Leo's futuristic katanas were partly made of a translucent blue plastic with a painted metallic handle ( representing the lazer-like, lightsabre-ish weapons of the show ). Here they are cast in solid silver. The scabbard on his back is completely blue, the original's scabbard is silver-metallic. While it may just be MY particular figure, it does appear that the head on my repro FF Leo is just a tad off-mold. ~ t
Captain Don of the Seafire has a great stop to visit the turles on his Molokini tour. As I post turtles, you will see the colors change... it all depends on the light and the depth I guess. For this reason I don't think I'll post them all at once :)
Have a great weekend!!
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
May 2012