Possibly a common water snake? Upside down V patterns on the side, with orange coloring in between the m.
didn’t know box turtles were even present in this area?
right arm appeared to be broken and healed but it could walk ok.
After 11 months of searching, finally got my lifer under a piece of bark! Large individual maybe 8-10 inches, and in shed
Quantitative:
-5 appendages (1 tail)
-1 beak like mouth
-20 finger/toe like appendages (5 on each leg)
-2 eyes
Qualitative:
-brown in color
-walked relatively quickly (took less than 5 minutes to cross the street)
-A large shell that covered its entire body except for appendages and head
-Whenever the turtle heard a sound it would stop moving
All brown upper body
3 snakes; the larger two were ~24”, smaller one was ~18”.