Shell shocked on the Severn
This one is real!
Well done Danny Gill for your photo taken on the River Severn just upstream from Tewkesbury on Monday afternoon.
Danny's dad Nick emailed...
" We had taken our boat out on the river and spotted this creature on a log that was sticking out of the river and enjoying the bank holiday sunshine...we manoeuvred the boat as close as we could and Danny took this photograph...it appears to be a turtle or terrapin of some sort. It was about 10 inches long and it hissed at us when we got close to it"
Anyone else ever spotted a similar creature in Gloucestershire?
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Comment number 1.
At 27th Apr 2011, the longhairedgit wrote:Its a southern painted terrapin (Chrysemys picta dorsalis) probably an escaped or dumped pet, if anyone wants to catch it and take care of it , its care is the same as for the usual red-eared terrapin.
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Comment number 2.
At 27th Apr 2011, Blackartz wrote:There have been a couple of similar terrapins living near to me in a large irrigation pond for the past few years.
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