Animals

First Their Eyes Met

I took a shot of these 2 turtles looking in each other's direction on a rock in the creek then over the next minute I took 10 shots of various birds and fish and other turtles. The red-eared slider was a male with long toenails. The cooter was larger with short toenails, a female.
Female River Cooter (Pseudemys concinna)
Male Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

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