sheilatoner's Identifications

There were a half dozen or so very very recent (probably only a day or two old) Red-eared Slider hatchlings in the Lower Pond. The Damselfly shows the relative size of the Red-eared Slider hatchlings, which I would estimate to be between the size of a quarter coin and a half dollar coin. There are already way too many
Red-eared Slider Turtles in these two ponds.
These little Red-eared Slider hatchlings are what I remember being in the pet stores when I was a little kid in the early 1960s; you could buy one for 10 cents, and the plastic pool dish (maybe 12 inches or so in diameter with a little ramp in the center) for another dime. My brother and I fed our little Red-eared Slider earthworms that we dug up in our backyard, as they were Free. It grew pretty quickly, and not knowing any better, we released it to "grow up" in the South Lake at Lake Merced in San Francisco, CA.