They may take our rehabilitation bins, but they’ll never take… our FREEDOM!
On Sunday, K release some baby water turtles that she had been over-wintering. Fortunately, we’re all of a mile from a good place at which to release turtles, Jordan Lake, so we didn’t have to drive too far.
The big one in the image set is a male (note the long nails for better, um, gripping) slider and the other three are painted turtles (you can see the orange on the underside of the shells in the images in the gallery).
Links take you to the full set. Oh, and for those wanting to take pictures of fish or reptiles in water, circular polarizers rock. :-) I do wish I had a better depth of field on some of the images, but it was a cloudy day, I needed the speed and I don’t like using an ISO greater than 800.