surprise observation

the other day I was out looking for birds with my husband, Bruce, and 2 friends. We'd been out for about 3 hours and drove to a new location. Where we parked there was a long grassy hill down to a wetland at a distance. With binoculars we could identify canada geese and a Great Blue Heron. there was something else in the water, dark below and on top with a patch of orange/red between. What was it? A duck with it's bill tucked in? what duck would have those colors. It's migration so you never know what might drop in. We got a scope out of the car for a better view. then we saw exactly what we'd been looking at. It was 2 painted turtles on top of each other on a rock. the top turtle was slanted back, so it's bottom carapace was showing, accounting for the color.

由使用者 maryjb 在 2020年05月16日 16:21 所貼文