Lakeview Trail - Joseph D. Grant County Park, Santa Clara County, California
Western pond turtle observed on the loop bridge at the Colusa refuge. While it’s an iPhone image at a distance I was able to observe this and other WPT turtles through my binoculars and confirm.
A whole bunch of them on some logs.
Was traveling overland uphill, maybe 20 yards away from a creek. It was at least 1 foot long. It had a triangular shaped long tail as seen in photo. Might it be a land turtle?