Box turtle

Found this in the yard:

It’s a box turtle. Presumably either the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, or possibly a Florida box turrtle, Terrapene carolina bauri.

Here’s a size comparison:

I put him back where I found him, and a bit later he had crawled off into the le aves.

Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 5 June 2011, Lowndes County, Georgia.

-jsq