Pond Life

Oi! Das ist aber mal was nicht ganz Alltägliches. Ich hab erst einmal welche gesehen, in Österreich.

Oh yes, they are very cute with their little dots instead of lines all over!
In nature they are mostly replaced by their american cousins which where purchased as a pet when it was still legal and then sometimes got dumped or did by themselves run away to our suitable wild habitats alas. The heritage foundation site in the Pfrungen peatland got a few Emys years ago from somewhere, might well be this NABU centre in Brandenburg, and I observed them there at first rather often at their ponds, but the last 5 years all my turtle sightings closer to home where American Slider again.