Painted Turtle

Joan Chasan photographed a pair of hooded mergansers, an osprey, and a painted turtle at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.

Steve Forman photographed an American coot, Canada geese, mute swans, painted turtles, and a mallard at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Joan Chasan photographed a great blue heron, a great egret, wood ducks, and painted turtles off Pelham Island Road in Wayland.

Steve Forman photographed an American bullfrog, a blue dasher dragonfly, a great blue heron, and a painted turtle at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.

Joan Chasan photographed an ebony jewelwing, lupine, and a painted turtle at Garden in the Woods in Framingham.

Harold McAleer photographed a painted turtle and a snapping turtle as they prepared to lay eggs in Lincoln.

Steve Forman photographed a honey bee, mallards, painted turtles, and damselflies at Grist Mill Pond in Sudbury.

Marc Sevigny photographed this painted turtle preparing to lay eggs in Harvard.

Mary Hudson photographed a muskrat, painted turtles, and a snapping turtle at Dell Park Cemetery in Natick.

Jon Turner photographed a painted turtle, a tree swallow, an eastern bluebird, a turkey vulture, a broad-winged hawk, a brown-headed cowbird, an eastern phoebe, a red-bellied woodpecker, and a red...