Turtles & Tortoises
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Managed a trip to the Yorkshire Dales for these Turtle Doves before I disappear for a few days. They kept there distance, so unfortunately they are large crops.
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Painted turtle at Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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5 tiny turtles (so cute & just 1cm long ... easier to see with the macro lens than in 'real life')
Macro Mondays: Nautical
Turtle time - Galapagos Islands
Today will be my 12th consecutive day at work. I am ready for some time off and hopefully a little peaceful nature time this weekend.
Happy Turtles In Fort Lowell Park Lake
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This turtle seemed so engaged in sunning and standing out among the others that a photograph was necessary - or so my son maintained. Great to see them plentiful and co-existing with the huge Snapping Turtles.
This green turtle was one of 20 this particular day that crawled on the Hookipa Park beach on Maui, Hawaii to rest. The turtle had just come ashore and was about to drop its head to sleep.
The green turtle is listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Major nesting is done in the French Frigate Shoals but some goes on right here in HI and we ran into one ranger going on a 'turtle nest watch.'
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Painted turtle enjoying a warm Halloween.
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Race Car Bob was a Kansas box turtle we found in our garage after we forgot to close the garage door one autumn night. We kept him with us for a month and then let him go back to nature. He sure was a funny fellow.
Mon Repos beach 🐢🐢🐢
Bundaberg Australia
On the outskirts of Bundaberg is Mon Repos, the largest Loggerhead turtle rookery in the South Pacific. From November to March annually, Mon Repos plays host to Loggerhead, Flatback and Green Sea Turtles
Bird Island | Seychelles
Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
There are seven types of sea turtle in the world’s oceans, six of which are officially classified as a ‘threatened species’ on the current IUCN Red List. The Leatherback and Olive Ridley are regarded as ‘vulnerable’, the Loggerhead and Green as ‘endangered’, and the Kemp’s Ridley and Hawksbill as ‘critically endangered’.
Seychelles is one of only a few major nesting sites around the world for the Hawksbill Turtle and, fortunately due to its remote location, Bird Island has perhaps more than its fair share coming up to lay each year. The laying season normally starts around the end of September / beginning of October, which coincides nicely with our annual visit. This is the time the south-easterly wind lessens and the sea becomes clearer and calmer. Green Turtles also breed on the island, but whilst they only come up at night when it’s dark to lay, the Hawksbill is happy to come up at any time of the day. However, the Hawksbill’s nesting season only lasts a few months to February, whereas the Green Turtle will lay throughout the year,
We’ve been very lucky over the years as we’ve probably now seen around hundred or so Hawksbills either coming in to lay, in the process of digging/laying or on their way back to the sea. For anybody who's interested in reading a bit more about the island’s conservation programme and the laying process then please see the final photo in this set where I’ve added some additional information.
I have so many photos of them that this year I only photographed them going back to the sea after laying - there are four shots here of three different turtles taken on three separate days.
Being close to a large pound, we have many turtles that come on our property to lay their eggs. This one was on our driveway. Not 100% certain, but I think it's a Blanding Turtle, by the shape of it's shell, which looks like a helmet, and the strong yellow marking on her neck.
For 120 pictures in 2020, #20 "Carved", this is a carved letter opener with a handle in the shape of a turtle. This is in my deficient new studio at our new house - I haven't found my lights or stands yet, so I had to set the black cloth on a patio table outside.
Western Pond Turtle on the left, and a Red-Eared Slider (A 'dimestore turtle', as people call them) on the right. The Red-Eared Slider is an invasive species, basically descended from released pet turtles. They are very numerous and get about as big as the other species. This one is just a younger one. We also have Western Painted Turtles here which look a lot like the Red-Eared Slider, but with no distinctive red mark in the ear area, which this one had. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish the turtle species as the striped ones, the Painted, and the Red-Eared, dull, as they age and their colors are not very vivid at all in later life.
With its blazing yellow throat, the Blandings Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) is, unfortunately, endangered throughout much of its range. The fragmentation of populations has not helped. These ten-inch-long turtles are long-lived, capable of reaching 70 years of age. Unfortunately, these long lives also translate to late sexual maturity--lady blandings are unable to produce babies until they are nearly 20 years old! Contrast that against the ubiquitous painted turtle, who matures in about five years, and you see why each and every shy blandings is a precious treasure.