{"id":22523,"date":"2023-02-11T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22523"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:43:18","slug":"painted-turtle-chrysemys-picta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22523","title":{"rendered":"Painted Turtle (<em>Chrysemys picta<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22525\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22525\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_20230211_006507.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Turtle (<em>Chrysemys picta<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I have walked many stretches of the C&#038;O Canal together. We haven&#8217;t been to the stretch above Little Falls together. We both hiked&#x2014;separately&#x2014;from Georgetown back in the 1970 but decided to go there today. We saw a few turtles including this painted turtle (<em>Chrysemys picta<\/em>) and quite a few red-eared sliders (<em>Trachemys scripta elegans<\/em>). I got one photo of a turtle I don&#8217;t recognize. I&#8217;m working on identifying that one. I got a few pictures of a Common Merganser (<em>Mergus merganser<\/em>), also. It was a lovely day and it&#8217;s always good to be outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I have walked many stretches of the C&#038;O Canal together. We haven&#8217;t been to the stretch above Little Falls together. We both hiked&#x2014;separately&#x2014;from Georgetown back in the 1970 but decided to go there today. We saw a few turtles including this painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and quite a few red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22523\">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":[3309,298,3190,3189,3308,3188,3187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22523"}],"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=22523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22526,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22523\/revisions\/22526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}