ALL manner of wildlife can be found at North Oxford beauty spot Wolvercote lakes, including an invader from abroad.
While out walking recently, Oxford Mail Camera Club member Duncan Becker captured an image of a red-eared terrapin lounging on a half-submerged tree branch.
The Canal and River Trust say the creature, though originally native to Britain around 8,000 years ago, only returned to our shores transported from the US as pets during the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles cartoon craze of the 1980s.
Like their animated inspiration, they often escaped their owners and many have made a home for themselves in the wild.
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This week's theme is 'spring' and we will have a double-page spread of some of the best images in Friday's paper.
Happy snapping!
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