Animals

Turtle Heads

I kept seeing motion far below me under tree branches on the opposite banks of the spillway creek. I thought it was spawning fish and took some shots to figure it out later. Turns out a bunch of turtles were having a little party under there. I count 5 river cooters and 1 red-eared slider
River Cooter (Pseudemys concinna)
Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

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