Got this soft shell turtle at a swampy pond.
He has good eyesight, he saw me sneaking up behind the bushes.
Fortunately it was feeling lazy and let me get close enough for more shots.
Here's a shot from the other side of the lake.
Another shot with a zoom past the logs in the foreground.
Here's a bonus shot of a couple sun basking buddies. Happy #turtlethursday
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Very cool!
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These are very good shots of this, from my point of view very exotic softshell turtle, no similar turtle lives here and I like this post very much. Especially the first photograph, that look through the vegetation has beautiful depth, light, and atmosphere. :) The turtle from the bonus is nice, and it's also a very good shot, but it's not so exotic, this species ( or a very similar one) got introduced here like pet shop animal and now lives and reproduces like wild one, a lot of them in a big pond near my town. It's a big pond, looks like a little lake and this scene looks like something from that pond.
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The common turtle is a red eared slider. People in the south have a soup recipe for them. I tried it once they taste pretty good with enough spices on them :-)
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Hehehehe maybe I will have a soup these days, a lot of turtles around, and in European parameters, I'm south enough :D
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Very nice photos! That turtle must be quite old!
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It was pretty large maybe 2.5 ft wide by 3 ft long. There are some pretty big snappers in that lake as well.
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This is a very big one! Old soul!
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Wow....!!!!
Absolutely Fantastic photo captures !!!!!!!!
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