turtle – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Roadside Mississippi Mud Turtle At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|November 10th, 2024|Categories: Mississippi Mud Turtles, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum, Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis, Mississippi Mud Turtle, reptiles, roadside, spring, subspecies, turtle, turtles|

Better late than never? I photographed this Mississippi Mud Turtle in spring at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, and I’m sharing it today.

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Urban Three-toed Box Turtle

By Mia McPherson|September 2nd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Sebastian County, Three-toed Box Turtles|Tags: box turtle, box turtles, close up, garden, grass, grasses, morning, reptiles, summer, Terrapene carolina ssp. triunguis, Three-toed Box Turtle, turtle, turtles, urban, yard|

I was enjoying my coffee outside yesterday morning when I spotted this Three-toed Box Turtle walking through the dew-covered grasses. Yes, I had to take photos.

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Three-toed Box Turtle Photos From Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 2nd, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Three-toed Box Turtles|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, box turtle, box turtles, glowing, morning light, move, reptiles, spotlight, spring, Terrapene carolina ssp. triunguis, Three-toed Box Turtle, turtle, turtles|

This morning I am showcasing four Three-toed Box Turtle photos that I took while I visited Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Oklahoma.

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Red-eared Slider Turtle Portraits in Arkansas

By Mia McPherson|June 21st, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Red-eared Sliders, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, close up, grass, grasses, moving, portrait, Red-eared Slider, Red-eared Slider Turtle, slider, sliders, spring, Trachemys scripta elegans, turtle, turtles, urban, yard|

Yesterday morning I caught movement out of the corner of my eye while photographing birds in my friend Steve's yard. Turns out it was a Red-eared Slider turtle.

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Possible Western Painted Turtle On A Log (See correction)

By Mia McPherson|November 11th, 2019|Categories: Red-eared Sliders, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: autumn, log, pond, Red-eared Slider, sunning, Trachemys scripta elegans, turtle, turtles|

Even when I don't have any birds to view or photograph I am always looking for other subjects and yesterday my "other" subject was a turtle sunning itself on a log at one of my local ponds.

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Female Loggerhead Turtle – Friday Photos

By Mia McPherson|November 18th, 2011|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Loggerhead Turtles|Tags: BP, British Petroleum, Caretta caretta, Deepwater Horizon, female, Gulf of Mexico, Loggerhead Turtles, nature photography, nesting, Sea Turtles, turtle, turtles|

At first I was so stunned that I wasn't taking any images of the Loggerhead Turtle, I just stood there admiring this temporarily earthbound sea creature. She was so beautiful to me.

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