Baby Painted Turtle
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Baby Snapping Turtle
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Hind legs are sprouting on these, just big enough to begin to perch on a rock beneath the water surface.
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Almost a frog
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Peter caught this guy and put him in the 5-gallon bucket, but the frog had other ideas.
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Duckweed and dead leaf
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Damselfly in a sycamore-bark canoe
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Art Deco dragonfly (Widow Skimmer)
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Not as clear as I'd like, but still cool to look at!
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Chuck's meadow
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Mating Cabbage Patch butterflies
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Cabbage Patch on thistle
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Piggy-backed Milkweed Longhorn Beetles on (predictably) milkweed.
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House wren
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His trilling song was almost as golden as the light that illuminates his beak in this (overexposed) photo.
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Fantastic insects – especially dragonfly #9, but also butterflies #17 (what a combination) and beetles #18 (they look like plastic toys). And these details of the frog's skin (#6), interesting.
astrobrojler · 2008-07-15: 16:07
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What a cute turtle your son has found. Great pictures to match great memories of your day.
japarker · 2008-07-15: 16:53
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love the baby snapping turtle! it's hard to imagine something so small and innocent will turn into such a hard-nosed predator! fantastic pics, as always...
olebluesteer · 2008-07-16: 01:57
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Gorgeous nature set. Great work.
Lynda · 2008-07-16: 10:05
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I love the first photograph. I had a pet turtle when I was a child called Helga. Later on I nicknamed her Houdini as she was able to escape her aquarium regardless of the 'security' measures. i guess she was more of a (free) bird than a turtle.
Dragana · 2008-07-16: 12:22
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I always love your pond posts! Unfortunately they are always so packed with favorites that I can't keep track of all of them! ;-) I love 1, 6, 10 and 13 in particular but so many great photos in this series!
mattandbranson · 2008-07-16: 22:10
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Nice set!
braandhisfuji · 2008-07-17: 06:47
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Thanks for sharing.Your son is lucky too..
????? · 2008-07-17: 07:33
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another great set, i loved the Piggy-backed Milkweed Longhorn Beetles ... never saw those in my life, they are great.
eljapa · 2008-07-20: 15:25
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I love this set as well - beautiful shots. So interesting to see the tadpoles turning into frogs. Isn't the process fascinating? The clouds over Chuck's meadow look like a dragon to me.
ncshutterbug · 2008-07-22: 16:28
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