Wednesday, September 15, 2010

... and baby makes two

O told me to get my camera, then he pulled the car up for a drive to the North End (usually a 5-minute walk). When we arrived, the turtle was still there, and -- at some distance -- I shot what I thought was a photo of one Snapping Turtle.


It wasn't till I uploaded the picture just now that I discovered it wasn't a Snapper at all, and it wasn't one.

The caked mud is muddying my identification options. Slider? Painted? Whoever they are, I've seen too few turtles this summer and I'm tickled to see these!

1 comment:

Wanda..... said...

I'm glad to see it too, we only have box turtles on the property here, but years ago a snapping turtle made it here from a near by lake or followed the creek up from the river possibly!