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We're big turtle fans here at Westchester Land Trust -- we have the spotted, box, wood, musk, painted and snapping varieties on land we've protected, and we spent weeks a few years ago trying to find bog turtles in a fen thtat we thought would be a likely spot (to no avail).
None of our land harbors diamond-backed terrapins, though. But there are still plenty of terrapins in the brackish marshes of Long Island, including the marshes around Jamaica Bay. Last week the terrapins emerged to lay their eggs, and it caught the people at JFK Airport by surprise, as we read in the Times today, here.