{"id":653,"date":"2012-05-17T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=653"},"modified":"2012-05-17T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:25:35","slug":"turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I saw a turtle sitting on the driveway as I was headed out. I didn&#8217;t have a camera in the car with me, but I got out to take a closer look and that was enough to get it to move off to the side so that it wouldn&#8217;t get run over. Steve also found a turtle last November (pics shown here). I&#8217;m now starting to wonder if it could have been the same one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-654\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"turtle1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It looks to me like an Eastern Box Turtle, &#8220;uncommon to rare in southern and western Lower Peninsula,&#8221; according to the Michigan DNR website. Many of these turtles stay in the same 5 acre area for their entire lives which is several decades, sometimes up to 100 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-655\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"turtle2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The one pictured here seemed to have a front foot that was missing its claws, but I wasn&#8217;t thinking to look for that most recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-656\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"turtle3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hopefully we&#8217;ll see one (it?) again and be able to tell if it is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I saw a turtle sitting on the driveway as I was headed out. 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