Box (Turtle) Lunch
Baby female (yes, I peeked - it is the shape of the bottom shell that is the give away) Florida box turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri). Really a tortoise. She is about the size of half a tennis ball. Her coloring is in transition. She will be darker all over.
There have always been box turtles on my property. I am thrilled as they are cuddly - not - but they are fascinating and an endangered species. I hope she sticks around, but she may be out to find her own territory.
Thank goodness they are slow. I am leaving the fast animals to Berelaxed who is so superb at getting their portraits (even if she does use stuffed ones).
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- Canon EOS Kiss X2
- 1/50
- f/16.0
- 250mm
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