Turtles!

We're having a very nice, summer-like weekend, and yesterday afternoon I was walking on the bike path that passes next to a nature preserve. I saw this fellow crossing right across the bike path:


By the time I'd gotten my camera, he'd hoofed it off the path and was halfway down the embankment of the other side. Those snapping turtles can move if they want to, and I guess he didn't like the attention.

Then, just a couple hundred yards later was this little pond, and I saw these guys having a sunbathe:


I liked watching them crawl in and out of the water and onto their nice sunny logs.

I do like watching for birds, too, but turtles and frogs are my favorites.