Male Box Turtle

While out looking for mushrooms yesterday,my son & granddaughter came across this male box turtle,he had the brightest orange legs & neck that I`ve ever seen.We released him back in the woods.
Linking up with Eileen athttp://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/ Sat.`s critters

Box Turtle,Blue skies

Sat.I woke up to this beautiful sky.After all those gloomy days,now this....it was beautiful.I got busy outside planting flowers ,seeds,pulling the poison ivy.I wanted so badly to just spray it with weed killer,but I have all these benefical insects around that I didn`t want to destroy them too.One year I used an idea off the tv of putting the poison vine in a tied baggy with round-up to let the leaf soak it up to the roots & guess what.It was wrapped around the dogwood tree so I lost the tree too as I didn`t know the roots were all under it everywhere.Today the tree is gone & I still have the poison.
This brightly colored box turtle was in the grass this morning,it rainned during the night & he was happliy gliding through the grass.I found a page on the internet called Robyn`s Box Turtle Page with alot of info about all kinds of turtles.She says males have red eyes ,so I`m thinking that this is a male.It is not the same turtle we`ve had for awhile as he doesn`t have the marks we put on him with our son`s name.That turtle is still around somewhere,I see it every year.Perhaps it is the female,I will have to go back & check my photos of it.That turtle came up the deck to the sliding glass door one hot day in the summer.Max barked like crazy to let me know.I put a dish of water out for the turtle as I suppose that is what it was looking for.
Alot of flowers are starting to bloom,will post those later.