A turtle suns itself on a fallen log by one of the islands in West Park lake. It’s been IDed on iNaturalist as a pond slider, a species native to northern Mexico and southern U.S. They are common pets, and too commonly abandoned in ponds and pools.
We first spotted this one in the spring of 2020, spending hours basking in the sun on hot days. It’s been in very much the same area on hot days every year since; more regularly in some years than others. People have told us it was already an established resident for a few years before we first noticed it.