Red eared sliders


Red-eared sliders, turtles at Texas Discovery Gardens - photo by Ed Darrell

Red-eared sliders cluster together to catch the sun on a spring day at Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park in Dallas. Photo by Ed Darrell, 2010

Red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans), a common aquatic turtle in the southern U.S., caught sunning themselves at the Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park in Dallas.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 7:04 pm and is filed under Gardening, Natural history, Texas, Travel, Wildflowers, Wildlife. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Backyard Jungle wallpaper « tangledwing says:
    June 1, 2010 at 6:42 am

    […] Nice photo of Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) […]

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