depscribe's photos with the keyword: 55-300mm Nikkor
Playing it safe
Checking for the tomato's owner
Considering a fallen tomato
16 Jun 2013 |
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Box turtles are omnivorous. They like berries, all sorts of fruits, and as previously mentioned, small invertebrates.
Heading out
16 Jun 2013 |
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Box turtles can actually skedaddle when they get a mind to -- well, by land turtle standards, anyway.
Considering the options
Taking a peek
16 Jun 2013 |
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This turtle was more cautious than most. It was nearly 15 minutes before he peeked out this much. Those long claws are for digging -- they eat grubs and snails and such, and dig into the ground for their winter's hibernation. (They also eay deadly toadstool mushrooms. They are immune to the toxin, which they store in their fat. That makes them unpalatable to many predators and is the reason they're one of the few American turtles not eaten by people.)
Why it's called a "box turtle"
15 Jun 2013 |
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I rinsed the poor fellow off, both to bring out the color and to get him to close up. Once, when I was a kid, I got a finger caught when a box turtle closed its shell. Hurt like crazy. I pried it open with a quarter. Neither it not I was permanently harmed.
It's a male
It begins
01 Jun 2013 |
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Soon, this nest will have scores of easily-disturbed paper wasps. One of summer's big little annoyances
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