>> As for folks not realizing that they have turtles living near them I can relate to that too. I once found a promising bog in Virginia that I just knew had bog turtles in it. I asked the owner if I could walk around in his cow pasture and look for them. He said sure but he had lived there for thirty years and never seen a turtle before.
>>I found two bog turtles in a half an hour! On my next trip I found five in one hour. But the owner had never seen one in thirty years.

OMG!! BOG turtles! How cool that must've been for you to see those!
I think a lot of people simply do not notice what is going on around them. I don't know if it's because they're too busy to notice, they don't care, or what. I always notice the wildlife around me, reptilian or not.
A former neighbor kept bird feeders out in her yard. One day as we spoke for a minute I heard a grackle making one of their sounds, the sound I like to hear, I mentioned something about that, she didn't have any idea what I was talking about.
I thought how odd, you feed the birds yet you don't notice them?
If they don't even know what birds they are feeding, they aren't going to know what reptiles are around them.

On the migrating ones we saw, I got to thinking about that after I mentioned it, so I looked in the field guide & found that the Texas river cooter does live in the region we were passing through. I'll bet that's what they were.
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