Ten-Year-Old Male Eastern Box Turtle
With overnight showers, Tuesday morning seemed opportune for an Eastern box turtle hunt at Mass Audubon’s Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Wareham. And so it proved, as Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse both spontaneously spotted this handsome turtle strolling across the landscape.
Young Male Box Turtles with Bright Red Eyes
Bright red eyes, brilliant orange stripes and patterns on his skin and shell, mixed with a dash of mellow yellow dots on his neck and lines on his carapace; this fellow flashed a bold designer look for the Spring 2013 Eastern box turtle scene. Who says turtles aren’t fashionistas?
Young Male Box Turtle at MAS Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
This young male marks the sixth Eastern box turtle that we have discovered at the Great Neck Sanctuary. A recap of four other box turtles finds can been seen in the Turtle Journal story: Eastern Box Turtles @ MAS Great Neck Sanctuary.
Eastern Box Turtle in MAS Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
After marking this gentleman as #66, and obtaining his vitals, the Turtle Journal team released him deep and safely inside the Sanctuary’s protected woodlands.