Turtles

[marisa]

As always at the local conservation area, there were turtles basking in a quiet end of the lake on some floating logs. Sometimes there are like 30 here, this day there was only like 10. One huge one though!

<img src="http://members.rogers.com/mattl/turtles.jpg">
<img src="http://members.rogers.com/mattl/turtles2.jpg">
<img src="http://members.rogers.com/mattl/flower.jpg">

I haven't seen any snakes out of the four times I have gone this past week but normally I see garters only anyways.

Marisa

[Tim and Julie B]

What kind of turtles are they? Gotta love turtles! That one is HUGE! I gotta get a camera and take some pics at a local golf course. There is a ton of Western Painted turtles in the water hazards.

[marisa]

I wish I could tell you what kind they are but they live mostly in a place that makes getting close to them hard. To come around and get near enough to actually see detail you have to come down a hill to the waters edge...its a little cove, anyways by the time you even start going down the hill they almost all jump off into the water.

Marisa

[Mason]

the turtles look like they are having fun.
That Ontario flower looks real healthy, almost jumped off the screen.

[Swampwalker]

Those would be Midland Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta marginata). Nice photograph of the Trillium.

[eyespy]

Wish I could find such cuties by me! It's been really tough to find herps at all the past few years, and it's been blamed on the drought.

Maybe I should go out this year after all the snow we had over the winter, perhaps it will be a better season this year.

[alex_33]

That looks exactly like the feeder canal on the way to my cottage, and i always see tonnes of turtles basking there, that look exactly like those ones lol! its quite a sight to see.

Great pics!

[snakehunter]

nice spelling alex 23!! a couple of weeks ago i was in bass tournament in fountainhead (Potomac River) in VA, and i saw some massive river cooters, imposible to sneak up on, even in aboat.