Garden Pic Wednesday: Baby Boxie Taking A Drink!
I have 3 Box Turtles living around my garden this year. One is a Baby, about 4 inches long. The two are mature Boxies: one with an ornate yellow pattern on his shell, which is taller then average and one with patch albino markings on his head and neck, which gives his head a grayish appearance. (He was the one eating popcorn in an earlier post.) It's been dry and super hot here for over 2 weeks with hardly any rain. Then, this past Sunday, a brief rain fell and Baby & Mr. Albino Head popped out to enjoy it. First a Baby Boxie crawled out onto my cement patio eager to drink from the puddles: First Picture: Baby paused and withdrew into his shell a little when I opened the door, uncertain whether I was a threat or not. A moment of unsureness as I opened the door to take a picture! Next Picture: Then, deciding I wasn't a threat, baby put his face in the puddle and slurped away. Baby Slurping Away! He would drink, move a few inches, drink some ...