Eastern Box Turtle

Terrapene carolina carolina

Today this bone head crawled his ass out onto Route 522 in the middle of a downpour. I happened by on the way back from the appliance store (Maytag clothes dryer repair invoice #1276b) and saved him from oblivion.

The trick with turtle rescue is to not cause an accident nor end up dead yourself.

"Yertle" here is now a resident of The Puddle.