Spotted Turtle

These guys are rare! I had the pleasure of releasing one onto the rail trail, because it is illegal for people to take wild life off the rail trail. It was crossing the street and a friend of mine picked it up and brought to me because he wanted to know what kind of turtle it was. There was another about this size behind the building I work at. Beautiful turtles, personally I feel lucky for coming across two in my life time and being able to have up close personal experiances with both of them!

I concur. I've worked with both blanding's and spotties and it is definitely a blanding's.

This is not a Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata), but rather a Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii), ID'd by the bright yellow chin and the speckled carpapace. A Spotted turtle has yellow spots on the carapace and adults do not reach the size of this juvenile picture, but rarely.