A Mud Turtle Release

     This Mud Turtle was dropped off to the Wildlife Hospital. It was unharmed and quite actice. So right away they gave it to me and and half an hour later it was swimming in a clean cypress swamp.
     When I released it into the flooded woods behind my house I had to be quick about it. This was not because of the Mud Turtle, it was because of the cloud of mosquitoes that are active right now. Recent rain and flooding has caused the mosquitoe popluation of explode. It was all I could do to stay still long enough to take a picture.