I’d been away for ten minutes or so, looking at the goslings (yesterday’s post). But I’m told that the West Park turtle emerged during a much shorter period when no-one was watching. One minute it wasn’t there. A minute later, literally, and it was.
When it emerged, it was wet and glistening all over. These pictures cover a span of eight minutes. It looked completely dry by the end of the sequence.
The turtle was at its favourite sunbathing spot. One of the pictures shows just how near that spot is to the nest which had the newly hatched coot chicks. For once, the turtle was facing towards the nest, and seemed to be watching it all the time we were here.