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My local pond, I was told there were several ducklings recently hatched, so set off with my camera and yes did capture some small fluffy cuties, but what caught my eye was this (turtle?) basking on a log in the sunshine!
Didn't expect that!
Baby turtles! We had 3 on board the research ship as the aquarium had asked us to release them once we were far enough offshore. How cute.
When I picked him up, it was like he was meant to be found! His front foot, which is hard to see, was deformed! It was like a lobster claw, sort of - no toes, just two little branches. I wonder if George sent out a disabled turtle signal
This little guy was possibly the quickest turtle I've seen. He barely paused to let me take a picture of him.
Taken at the Joseph L. Popp Jr. Butterfly Conservatory.
"Mum, look, that one's trying to crawl on the other one's back," said a young boy. Reptile House at the Glasshouse in Queen's Park, Glasgow. (May, 2010)
It's been a very long time since my last upload. Life sure has gotten in the way of photography for almost a year. I suppose getting married and buying a house will do that to a girl ;)
As I am going through and purging photos I no longer want to keep I stumbled upon this picture I took last year while hiking. I titled this photo Frank because, well, he looks like a Frank to me. Quite an inquisitive fella who didn't mind me getting a closer look at him. It's not often you see turtles this large in our area...So as you can imagine I was pretty excited to find this fella (or he found me).
I hope to be back to shooting more regularly in the coming weeks :)
(Pseudemys rubriventris) The northern red-bellied turtle or American red-bellied turtle . It is endemic to the United States. The current range of the red-bellied cooter includes a colony in Massachusetts which was previously a separate species (Pseudemys rubriventris bangsii) as well as the coastal areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
(Eretmochelys imbricata) Having a snack at Mainit, Anilao. - The hawksbill is listed as an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. It is also listed as endangered throughout its range by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. An exhaustive review of the worldwide conservation status concluded that the hawksbill is suspected or known to be declining in 38 of 65 geopolitical units where information is available. (www.turtles.org)
June evening at Lake Maria State Park, MN. See a painted turtle in the grass and get out to get a few photos and expect it to run off like most painted turtles do, but it didn't. It was digging in the ground a hole and thought it was strange and then the first egg popped into the hole and watched her drop 8 eggs into the hole and then covered the hole and walked back to the lake.