Turtle and leech

Found my first painted turtle of the season after having crossed Munger Shaw Rd.  I grabbed him out of the grass and showed the kids.   He had a leech stuck to the back of his shell.  Then some other bloodsuckers tried to get me.  I had a wood tick crawling up my arm and my leg.

Painted turtle on the shoulder of the road.

Leech stuck to the back of the turtle. 

A slough day

I saw the turtles out sunning themselves on the same log I captured the turtles last spring.  It could even be the same turtles!  The frogs were deafening.  So loud.  I figured there were so many frogs I had to be able to find one.  I looked and looked and looked.  Finally!  Their camouflage servers them well. Then I noticed the mosquito larvae.  No wonder there are so many frogs.

Two painted turtles

Red-brown colored Wood Frog

Another Wood Frog in more typical coloring

Holy mosquito larvae!