Handsome Ducks and Pond Sliders

Top Photo: Ten hooded mergansers that showed up in our wetlands the first half of February. A handful of photos of a modest raft of hooded mergansers and a small bale of sliders on a warm February day. All it takes is a few days of sunshine with temps in the fifties and the yellow-bellied and red-eared sliders will be out basking. Have a good one! Ranger GregRead more

Turtles!

If you like turtles, aquatic turtles, you’ll like our wetlands right about now! Turtles galore are out basking in this crazy warm February sunshine! But you better hurry, this 70, and yes, 80 degree weather won’t last long. Highs are expected to be in the forties on Saturday.Read more

Rare Sighting at Museum

The sun finally showed itself here at the Museum after over a week of hiding behind rainy, drizzly, stratus clouds. It didn’t take long before the turtles of the Wetlands came out to take advantage of the rarity by basking in the warm sunshine. A small tree has fallen onto one of the turtles’ favorite basking boulders limiting access to the spot. Even so, the turtles began filling up space on the boulder early in the day. Good day sunshine!Read more