Painted Turtle

1 turtle drawing (11 x 21 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (23)b

North American herpetology :.Philadelphia :J. Dobson,1836-1840..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3688308

Drawing of 3 anatomical cross sections of turtle (7 x 3 cm., 7 x 3 cm., 7 x 3 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (26)l

1 turtle drawing (9 x 18 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (23)d

North American herpetology :.Philadelphia :J. Dobson,1836-1840..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3688294

While many say the Hook is all herons... there's an occasional other creature around worth watching.Eastern Painted TurtleChrysemys picta pictaBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeKent, County, Delaware, USAOlympus OM-D E-M1 Mark IIOlympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 IS Lens M.Zuiko Digital 1.4x Teleconverter MC-14f/9 1/1600 ISO 640 -1.3 EV Focal length: 473 mm (947mm equivalent)In-Camera Digital Teleconverter ON25 June 2022#1stPixBHNWRPhil's 1stPix Instagram Phil's 1stpix InstagramPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist-Observation Map iNaturalist: ObservationsPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist- Species Grid iNaturalist: Species

I don't know what the prospective merits of basking on a muskrat den are, but they must be quite popular. Eastern Painted TurtleChrysemys picta pictaBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeKent, County, Delaware, USAOlympus OM-D E-M1 Mark IIOlympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 IS Lens M.Zuiko Digital 1.4x Teleconverter MC-14f/9 1/1600 ISO 640 -1.0 EV Focal length: 560 mm (1122mm equivalent)C-AF Tracking +MF25 June 2022#1stPixBHNWRPhil's 1stPix Instagram Phil's 1stpix InstagramPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist-Observation Map iNaturalist: ObservationsPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist- Species Grid iNaturalist: Species

Walpole, Massachusetts

Bombay Hook certainly has it's charms... wide open views, ample species, convenient wildlife drive, swarms of killer biting flies, easy access. But bird after bird, I was starting to get a little burned out.Eastern Painted TurtleChrysemys picta pictaBombay Hook National Wildlife RefugeKent, County, Delaware, USAOlympus OM-D E-M1 Mark IIOlympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 IS Lens M.Zuiko Digital 1.4x Teleconverter MC-14In-Camera Digitial Teleconverter: Onf/9 1/800 ISO 400 -1.0 EV CompensationFocal length: 473mm (947mm equivalent)C-AF Tracking +MF25 June 2022#1stPixBHNWRPhil's 1stPix Instagram Phil's 1stpix InstagramPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist-Observation Map iNaturalist: ObservationsPhil's 1stPix on iNaturalist- Species Grid iNaturalist: Species

Foxborough, Massachusetts

Greene, Maine

Virginia, United States