Someone call the spam police....this is getting ridiculous. The few moments I do have to spend on my blog, I end up deleting spam. Oy.
Today, my brother and I rented a canoe and took a three hour tour of Lake Seneca. Besides a whole lot of paddling, we saw a good sized turtle swimming and a doe and her two fawns on the shoreline. It was particularly sweet to see the mother deer licking her spotted offspring. You don't get close enough to see that too often.
We found the turtle fairly amusing as well. We kept paddling our canoe around him so that we could continue to watch him. His shell was light in color which means he wasn't a painted turtle. And he didn't look like a snapper either. Doing a bit of internet searching, I belive he's a mud or musk turtle. Or he might even be a northern red-bellied turtle. He was too big to be an Eastern Mud Turtle, so I'm guessing if he was a mud turtle, he was a different variety. He was easily 12 inches long, if not bigger.
I guess it is the year of the turtle for me. I don't remember seeing so many different turtles in the span of a few months.