{"id":22270,"date":"2022-10-15T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22270"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:21:05","slug":"pseudemys-rubriventris%e2%80%8b-northern-red-bellied-cooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22270","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pseudemys rubriventris\u200b<\/em> (Northern Red-bellied Cooter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22272\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22272\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pseudemys rubriventris\u200b (Northern Red-bellied Cooter)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221015_004864.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pseudemys rubriventris\u200b<\/em> (Northern Red-bellied Cooter)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I walked on the canal today, heading northwest (upstream) from Pennyfield Lock, getting near Blockhouse Point. We saw a Great Blue Heron and I got a few photos of that but thought this photo of a northern red-bellied cooter (<em>Pseudemys rubriventris\u200b<\/em>) deserved to be seen. These are large basking turtles and are fairly common along the canal, along with the smaller eastern painted turtle (<em>Chrysemys picta picta<\/em>). Often, and especially from a distance, the color pattern on these turtles isn&#8217;t easily seen. This one, however, was particularly vivid and with the help of my long lens (zoomed to 531mm, according to the exif data), I was able to get quite close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I walked on the canal today, heading northwest (upstream) from Pennyfield Lock, getting near Blockhouse Point. We saw a Great Blue Heron and I got a few photos of that but thought this photo of a northern red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys rubriventris\u200b) deserved to be seen. These are large basking turtles and are fairly &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3248,3251,3249,3246,3247,3250,1796,1795,3187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22273,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions\/22273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}