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Or, well, turtle and waterlily. For my bb [livejournal.com profile] jan_u_wine, who wished to see turtles. She requested a pic of my family turtle Cleo, who lived to be 20, but I don't have a pic of him. However, he was a red-eared slider just like the turtle with the waterlily here. He grew to be a couple of inches bigger than this one.



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Cleo had a much cleaner shell, of course, being a pampered house turtle. I took these pics earlier this month.


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They are also known as red-eared terrapins. They're called sliders because of how quickly they'll slide into the water if you approach them. One more angle of this red-eared turtle, and then on to more turtle spam from late April to early June.


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I took this pic back in April, but one or two turtles come to perch on this stick most days I've been around the lake, which is most everyday this spring.


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I don't know what kind of turtle this is swimming through the muck, but I think the pics are mostly either red-eared or painted turtles.


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This is definitely an eastern painted turtle, like the little one I found in the path back in April.


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This is the same pretty turtle. Look at the red leaf in the upper left hand corner: "<3 the Turtle." (-:


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Did you spot all four here? They're ranging from about 3 inches to almost a foot.


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There's at least one almost foot long painted turtle on this log most everyday, sometimes accompanied by ducks or frogs. I haven't uploaded the interspecies companionability pics yet, so you'll be seeing them later.


Turtle, Greenbelt Lake, 5-13
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From: [personal profile] spiralsheep


My mum used to keep terrapins but I've never seen one in the wild so your turtle photos continue to delight me.
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From: [personal profile] spiralsheep


The only native chelonia in the UK are migrant marine turtles. There are a few escaped terrapins but I don't think our climate allows them to breed successfully. So your friends are proper "exotics" to my eyes. :-)

From: [identity profile] jan-u-wine.livejournal.com


ah, my turtle fix! thank you, dear LT! There is a park where I walk every week where there are turtles, but not nearly as non-shy as these. (and.....turtles with frog and duck? Can't wait to see that, esp the frog part!)

thank you!

From: [identity profile] lavendertook.livejournal.com


I'm not quite as close as the pics make it look, or more of them would have slipped out of view. About mid-June, the turtles started getting much more shy and hard to photo--I guess they got more experience with human predation after an exuberant, fancy-free April and May celebration of the end of an over-long winter. There is a real bumper crop of them this year. Oh, do I have froggie pics for YOU. (-:

From: [identity profile] addie71.livejournal.com


Those are great pictures. I like the one where they are lined up on the branch in the water. :)

From: [identity profile] lavendertook.livejournal.com


Thank you, bb! They are so cute on that log--though since mid-June, they've been slipping more quickly into the water when they catch you even looking sideways at them.
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