[UPDATE: Oh, it's a common snapping turtle. See comments.]
This big critter looks to made of 100% muscle.
Take care you don’t run into it in Golden Gate Park on a dread sunny day:
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(Just guessing here, alligator snapping turtle Macrochelys temminckii?)
Snap snap!
First it was all like this:
But then it was all like this:
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See what I mean? Pwned!
How wude, huh?
Not to be confused with a yellow-legged Snowy Egret, this black-legged Great Egret (Ardea alba) spotted in Golden Gate Park‘s Strybing Arboretum (aka San Francisco Botanical Garden) seemed to be transfixed with its plumage for a good long time.
After the preflight inspection, it then flew away.
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