Here is a box turtle out in the middle of the Falmouth woods:
Another view:
Here is a smaller one I saw later:
Another view:
(Pretty cute). So I guess these box turtles are not as rare as I thought.Back in Woods Hole, here is a beautiful little sphinx moth. I have seen more of these during my life than any other species of the genus. This is what is common around here.
An all-time favorite:
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In the fourth picture down, is the young box turtle stepping on a quartz projectile point with his front left foot?
I don't think so, the paths here have quartz gravel.
That evening, the same moth flew in through the open door and flitted around the room without much direction or purpose. I wanted to get it safely outside so it might have a better chance to eat/mate/live and I started towards it across the room with my hands held out to shoe it towards the door. But it flew up and landed on me, trustingly, and I walked it out, tossed it back out into the dark, and offered it what encouragement I could.
MA Box Turtle info:
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/species_info/nhfacts/terrapene_carolina.pdf
And CT too:
That turtle might never travel very far.
Up in the Mound Swamp, I once spotted what I thought was two box turtle shells somebody had stacked up, much like one stone on top of another. But it was a case of Turtle Love. I didn't have a camera on me of course - and it was before I had a digital camera and I could have been busted for traffiking in Turtle Porn...
CT link I forgot to add:
http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/wildlife/pdf_files/outreach/fact_sheets/boxturtle.pdf
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