Turtles & Tortoises
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I love seeing the turtles basking in the sun on a winter's day at the local park in Portimao, Portugal.
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Painted turtle offering up a nice scene at Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1/200 sec. f/7.1 213mm ISO100
Canon EOS70D
Tamron 150mm-600mm
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.
Three of the many turtle logs I photographed last weekend. On the middle one, I like the way the last turtle seems to be taking an interest in the nutria. In the lower one, I believe I can count three turtle species on the log - the ever-so-abundant and invasive Red-Eared Sliders, the native Western Pond Turtle (The ones with no color or stripes), and I feel pretty certain the big turtle number three from left to right, is a native Western Painted Turtle. I am not 100% certain, but the lack of red-ear, plus the numerous yellow stripes on the head say it is. If only I could be sure. I always feel the Western Painted Turtle is the holy grail of turtle-sighting in our ponds here.
Painted turtle
Taken at Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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I came across this ornate box turtle sitting by the side of the trail. Happily it posed for me for a while before it ambled off into the woods. It's not a species I see often...
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX. Sony nex5r and Schneider Kreuznach Componar 50/4.5 enlarger lens. The turtles have grown accustomed to the passers by at the entrance to the Center, and they seem to enjoy their theatrics.
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.
Blanding's turtle, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Got out on the pontoon today, I even got to drive.
One of the things we saw was this Blanding's turtle sitting at the edge of the marsh.
Emydoidea blandingii
Blanding's Turtles live in shallow water, usually in large wetlands and shallow lakes with lots of water plants.
It is not unusual, though, to find them hundreds of metres from the nearest water body, especially while they are searching for a mate or traveling to a nesting site.
Blanding's Turtles hibernate in the mud at the bottom of permanent water bodies from late October until the end of April.
source - www.ontario.ca/page/blandings-turtle
"Like sea turtles in the vast ocean, we must trust the currents of life, embracing every wave with patience and grace, knowing our journey is as boundless as the sea."
Two Red-eared Slider Turtles bask themselves in the warm sunshine. I'm seeing more and more rather large turtles, some appear to have been well taken care of which leads me to believe someone has let them go in the canal due to their size.
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.