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March 2, 2021



Happy Dr. Seuss’s Birthday and National Read Across America Day!



Happy Dr. Seuss’s Birthday and National Read Across America Day!


It’s a triple celebration: of Yertle the Turtle,


reading to turtles,


and also picture and video tributes to wild snapping turtles and wild painted turtles in celebration of World Wildlife Day on March 3rd tomorrow!


This giant, 48-piece floor puzzle measures approximately 2 feet by 3 feet.


The Dr. Seuss museum is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and contains a Yertle garden with a 10 foot tall bronze statue of Yertle and some of the turtles!


To see our own triple collection of Yertles, just click the “read more” button below!


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February 25, 2021



Happy Birthday to Gracie Today!



Gracie was born—or should we say hatched?—on February 25, 1989.


It’s hard to believe she turns 32 today!!!


For more about Gracie, just click the “read more” button below.


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February 20, 2021



Happy National Love Your Pet Day!



Rocky here was my first turtle pet—and boy, do I love him!


This is also the picture we used on my first Turtlesinger CD, Turtle Bug, which includes the "Rocky" song.


For more pictures of the turtle pets we love, just click the “read more” button below.


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February 14, 2021



Happy Valentine’s Day!



We’re delivering a series of turtle Valentines today!


For several Franklin the Turtle as well as other turtle valentines, just click the “read more” button below.


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January 29, 2021



Happy National Puzzle Day!



We love puzzles!


This small but good little keychain turtle puzzle is one of our favorites.


To see some more of our favorite turtle puzzles, just click the “read more” button below.


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January 21, 2021



Happy National Hugging Day!



This picture was taken from one of the many sets of matching turtle t-shirts worn by The Turtlesinger and The Turtletoter.


Some say we need at least 10 hugs a day: so, go grab someone and hug them!


We’re also celebrating National Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day tomorrow, on January 22nd! But first, for a photo of our cats hugging, just click the “read more” button below.


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January 14, 2021



Happy National Dress Up Your Pet Day!



Bart makes an adorable tortoise AND the hare on National Dress Up Your Pet Day today! Bart is shown here at the Woofin’ Paws Pet Fashion Show in Ocean City, New Jersey.


At the same time, we’re also celebrating National Hat Day tomorrow on January 15th!


To see our Turtlesinger turtles dressed in hats—among other costumes—just click the “read more” button below.


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January 7, 2021



Happy National Bobblehead Day!



Welcome to our first Turtlesinger blog of 2021!


Here’s one of our favorite bobblehead turtles.


To see video of some toy as well as real, live turtle heads bobbing in action, just click the “read more” button below.


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December 23, 2020



At Christmas time, we dress up our logo as Santa turtle!



This is the first frame in the slideshow presentation we’ve used during The Twelve Turtle Days of Christmas at numerous Turtlesinger Christmas shows.


For many years, our Turtlesinger Christmas show was an annual part of Ocean City’s Twelfth Night Celebration.


For more Christmas turtles, just click the “read more” button below.


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December 18, 2020



Turtle Santa!



What do turtles have to do with Christmas?


To celebrate turtles at Christmas time with us, just click the “read more” button below!


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November 26, 2020



Happy Thanksgiving!



This turtle dressed as a turkey looks like Gracie, but it’s not—although Gracie DOES own a similar turkey outfit!


Happy Thanksgiving from us and all the turtles, and to see Big Black Bart in his Thanksgiving outfit, just click the “read more” button below.


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October 31, 2020



Happy Howl-o-ween!



Here’s the 2nd Wally yawning picture we promised you at the end of the last blog—only this time, he’s yawning with a jack-o-lantern (but it looks like he’s howling)!


For some TURTLES in costumes, just click the “read more” button below.


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October 29, 2020



Happy National Cat Day!



I know we just showed you black cats, but THAT was National BLACK Cat Day--try and keep up, people (LOL)!


Since our present cats are white, we get to show them to you today on National Cat Day! National Cat Day was created to bring awareness to rescue cats and how wonderful they can be.


Here’s Ollie, adopted with his brother, Wally from the Animal Shelter on Route 47 in Cape May Court House. Their mother and her 5 kittens were found abandoned in an alley near a restaurant in center city Philadelphia.


To see Ollie and his brother as kittens, just click the “read more” button below!


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October 27, 2020



Happy National Black Cat Day!



Our current cats are not black (you’ll see more of them on National Cat Day in a few days), but my very first cat was a mostly black cat from the Center City Philadelphia Animal Shelter. He kept me company while I worked on my Master’s degree from Temple University, and I named him Eugene. He lived until he was 19, and here’s Jeeves: a delightful tuxedo cat from Cape May who we also loved for many years.


For more black cats, just click the “read more” button below.


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October 26, 2020



Happy National Pumpkin Day!



Gracie graces our blog post today on tiptoe with some seasonal pumpkins.


For more pictures of turtles with pumpkins, just click the “read more” button below.


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October 25, 2020



National Art Day and the Notorious RGB



That’s Notorious Rocky, Gracie and Bart!


Did you know that these three Turtlesinger Turtles were once famous artists?


To see their finished artworks, just click the “read more” button below!


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October 21, 2020



Happy National Reptile Day!



Turtles are reptiles, and one of the most impressive turtles is the alligator snapping turtle, showing off the pink “lure” on his tongue which he uses to lure fish before snapping them into his mouth!


For more awesome reptiles, just click the “read more” button below…


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October 15, 2020



Happy National Mushroom Day!



Mushrooms are one of Big Black Bart’s favorite treats!


Some other kinds of turtles are also very fond of eating mushrooms.


For more of Bart devouring some mushrooms, just click the “read more” button below.


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October 9, 2020



Praying You’ll Love These Mantises…



We love praying mantises and have so many beautiful shots of them it will take more than one blog to show you. So, the first mantis blog is a set of photographs of an extremely photogenic praying mantis at the former (now closed) and very beautiful Leaming’s Run Gardens in Swainton, New Jersey. We loved not only seeing turtles of different kinds there, but snakes, frogs, butterflies, and more: and, of course, many beautiful flowering gardens.


For a series of photos of a praying mantis in one of their beautiful gardens, click the “read more” button below.


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September 29, 2020



Happy National Coffee Day!



Charlie, The Turtletoter, lives for his morning cup of coffee in order to function for the day. Charlie’s mug pictured here holds a full half gallon of coffee! Bottoms up, fellow coffee drinkers!


To see some of our favorite TURTLE mugs on National Coffee Day, just click the “read more” button below.


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September 26, 2020



Happy Johnny Appleseed Day!



What do apples, pancakes, and public lands have to do with turtles and each other?


Well, they all have something in common with The Turtlesinger and are being celebrated today: Happy Johnny Appleseed Day, National Pancake Day and National Public Lands Day!


To find out the commonality in these 3 celebrations, click the “read more” button below



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September 21, 2020



Happy Birthday to Donna!



Our sis-in-law Donna’s birthday falls on the day before Fall Equinox Day, so we’re going to share a few fall pictures with you as well as some Cape May County pictures of the moon—because Donna loves Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune!


To see these pictures, just click the “read more” button below!



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September 18, 2020



Happy Anniversary to Us (and some "Rail-ly" Wonderful Years)!



It’s 21 years of wedded bliss for us today!


For more about this photo and our fabulous turtle shirts, including some of our favorite denizens of the salt marsh, click the “read more” button below!




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September 14, 2020



Happy National Coloring Day!



What better way to celebrate National Coloring Day than by coloring a Turtlesinger (or other) Turtle Picture?


To see the larger, actual outlines we’ve drawn so people can color them of Rocky, Gracie, and Big Black Bart (pictured here), click the “read more” button below!




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September 11, 2020



Patriot Day: Remembering 9/11



Pictured here, Rocky helps us remember Patriot Day and 9/11 today. I lived in and around New York City in Queens, Hoboken, and Brooklyn for most of the 80’s. There, I got my training in reptiles at the Big Bronx Zoo reptile house, worked part-time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sang off-off Broadway opera, worked in the Wall Street district, commuting through the former World Trade Center daily, and met and married my first husband, Dick (now deceased), who was a journalism professor at NYU.


New York City was a big part of my life, and every year on 9/11 I pause and feel deeply affected by the tragedy of the bombing as I remember those who lost their lives that day.


I belong to a group called CMCS: the Cape May County Songwriters. CMCS gives me a chance to write and perform non-turtle songs, as well as providing an inspiration for new turtle songs, too. We haven’t had our monthly meetings since covid, but we’ve met for many years. Our practice has become to do a monthly assignment, where a member picks a phrase and then everyone writes a song including that phrase. On the 9/11 anniversary in 2018, I wrote a song about my memories of 9/11 including the assignment, “dressed in black” (lyrics below):


Dressed in Black – A Song For 9/11 – (September assignment: Dressed in black) (9/11/18, © Karen Buckley)


Dressed in black When the towers fell

They never came back They never came back

Dressed in gray That terrible day

When the ash cloud Never went away


Dressed in white As the ash cloud grows

And the terror rose, The terror rose,

And dressed blues For the lives they would lose

We’ll never forget The attack, the attack


Dressed in red For the fire that spread

For the cries, for the screams When the lines went dead

Dressed to kill For that was their will

These scenes forever in our minds to fill


Dressed in yellow For every fellow

Who swallowed his fear To save someone near

Dressed in pink Who knew what to think

When the planes went down All around


Dressed in a rainbow of women and men

Who would never see their Loved ones again

Dressed in brown It changed each town

It changed our nation As the shock went round


Where were you when planes no Longer flew,

when we All held our breaths And counted the deaths?

Everything stopped Look up in the sky

No plane goes by, No planes go by


Wait, who’s next Hold on to your loved ones

Are we safe? The fear is racing

I used one of the Towers daily

Now reduced To dust and bones


Dressed in gray People on their way

Never knowing their lives would End that day

All dressed up In a suit and a tie

When they realized they were Going to die……


Dressed in green It’s a different scene

As one proud tower Rises serene

Dressed in black We mourn for the lack

Of the ones who never came back From the attack


ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOTE: today is also

National Make Your Bed Day! In honor of Make Your Bed Day, we thought we’d show you our beloved turtle quilt my mom made me on our bed.


For pictures and information about this wonderful quilt, click the “read more” button below.


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September 4, 2020



Happy National Wildlife Day: Greetings from some sunset ibises!



On Father’s Day, we showed you a growing YELLOW-crowned night heron family. Today, in honor of National Wildlife Day, we’ll show you a growing BLACK-crowned night heron family at the same location as before: the Ocean City rookery.


To see pictures and video, click the “read more” button below.


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August 29, 2020



“Westy” is the Besty!



Meet Westy, the beautiful, local, wild Eastern Box Turtle!


For more about Westy and to watch Westy eat a mushroom, click the “read more” button below


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August 23, 2020



Corny but Good



Summer’s not over, and you know it’s still summer when there’s corn on the cob to eat!


For video of our turtles devouring their own corn on the cob, click the “read more” button below!




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August 21, 2020



A Tale of 2 Brothers



Today we celebrate Charlie The Turtletoter’s brother Ken’s birthday on the 21st, as well as Karen The Turtlesinger’s brother Steven’s birthday tomorrow on the 22nd (AND Happy Birthday to Ken’s daughter Katelyn on the 22nd, too)!


For more about this photo and more photos of brothers (or pairs), click the “read more” button below!


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August 12, 2020



No Regrets Seeing These Egrets!



We live on the salt marsh, home of the diamondback terrapin.


Today, we focus on one of the most majestic inhabitants of the salt marsh: the Great White Egret.


For more amazing picture/videos of Great White Egrets, click the “read more” button below!


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August 3, 2020



Happy National Watermelon Day!



To see and hear Gracie make special watermelon sounds, to see video of Bart eating watermelon, AND to see an EXPLODING watermelon, click the “read more” button below!


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July 27 , 2020



Birthday Blog!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TURTLESINGER!


Today’s Question is:


What kind of turtle wearing a birthday party hat is this?


To see some of my favorite turtle photos (and video), click the “read more” button below!


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July 22 , 2020



Happy Birthday, Sis!



Happy Birthday to my sister, Kathy, who lives in Missouri!


And Happy National Hot Dog Day! Today’s Question is:

What do hot dogs and Turtlesinger Tortoise Big Black Bart have in common?


To see some pictures my sister took of some of her local Missouri box turtles—and also for a picture of a hot dog and the answer to today’s question--click the “read more” button below!

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July 20 , 2020



Happy National Lollipop Day!



Today’s first question is: What kind of lollipop is Gracie about to eat?


We have 3 Questions today, and the second one is a local one: What does the word “lollipop” have to do our neighboring town of Wildwood, New Jersey?


For the answers to these and one more question--and to see more turtle lollipops--click the “read more” button below!


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July 14 , 2020



Babies on the Marsh!



Today’s Question is: How many babies do you see following this mother duck?


To see more babies on the marsh, click the “read more” button below!


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July 4 , 2020



Happy Independence Day from Rocky!



Today’s Question is: What kind of box turtle is Rocky?


For more 4th of July turtles on parade, click the “read more” button below!

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July 1 , 2020



Birthday Blog!



Our baby, Spike, was only quarter-sized: but today he’s 15!!!










Today’s Question is: What kind of turtle is Spike?














To find out, and for more about Spike, push the “read more” button below!

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June 27, 2020



A female terrapin just used our turtle ramp!



You can create your own turtle ramp so terrapins can access your property to lay their eggs!

Today’s question is: What’s one way you can tell a female diamondback terrapin from a male diamondback terrapin?

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June 21, 2020



Happy Father's Day!



Both the Father and the mother sit on the eggs to hatch them! To see what this yellow-crowned night heron is sitting on, push the “read more” button below!


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June 16, 2020



Happy World Sea Turtle Day!



To see these hatchling sea turtles in action, click the "read more" button below!


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June 15, 2020



Happy Nature Photography Day!



Today’s Question is: Is this a male or female box turtle, and how can you tell? Push the Read More button below for today’s answer, and to see an award-winning photo by Charlie Buckley!


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June 8, 2020



Happy World Oceans Day (wait for the baby dolphins) and celebrating sea turtles too!



Today’s Question is: Can you name just 1 of the world’s sea turtles? Push the Read More button below for today’s answer!


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June 5, 2020



Today’s Question is: What kind of turtle benefits the most from these signs on Stone Harbor Boulevard?



Push the read more button below for today’s answer!


Happy Strawberry Full Moon and World Environment Day!


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June 3, 2020



Today's question is: What kind of turtle is this?



It was helped at Garden State General Construction in Clermont, New Jersey!


Garden State General Construction is one of our generous supporters, and this beautiful turtle was found by employee Wayne in the construction yard!


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May 31, 2020



You Otter See This!...



…and other not-just-turtle visitors!


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May 27, 2020



Babies at Tuckahoe Wildlife Area



…Turtles and Geese and Swans: Oh My!


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May 25, 2020



Memorial Day Turtles…



…On Parade!


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May 24, 2020



Turtle Ramp!



…And Donna’s Donation!


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May 23, 2020



Happy World Turtle Day!



…And 2 New Links!


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May 19, 2020



New page: FaceTime Read to a Live Turtle!



…And So Many Cormorants!


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May 13, 2020



Turtle Races!



And...they're off!


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May 12, 2020



Happy Birthday,Yikes, and Spike!



Good news and bad news...


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May 11, 2020



Turtlesinger, Inc. and Covid-19



A Rainbow of Hope for you today...


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May 10, 2020



Happy Mother's Day!



Welcome to my new blog!


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