Archive for September, 2010

Wareham Week Posts New Turtle Release Video

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Turtle Release Party at Wareham Community Gardens

Courtesy of Jaime Rebham of Wareham Week.  “Turtle researchers Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse, along with over a dozen curious supporters, released the 1-inch-long hatchlings into the grassy shore of a pond behind the Wareham Community Gardens.”


Touched by Nature

Monday, September 6th, 2010

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Touched by Nature — Mckenzie Coughlin of Wareham

On Saturday morning the Wareham community released 18 painted turtle hatchlings into the wild.  These babies emerged from five nests that had been protected by the good stewards at the Wareham Community Gardens off Tihonet Road.  Sharing this space with painted turtles who have been nesting on the site for centuries uncounted, Wareham gardeners sought to save the next generation of painted turtles for the next generation of Wareham children.  Interesting to imagine, the babies released on Saturday will be on hand at the turn of the next century (2100) to greet the grandchildren of the grandchildren who released them today.  Such is the way that turtles build communities and knit seamless continuity into the framework of time and nature.

Mckenzie Coughlin, an eighth grader at Wareham Middle School, was touched by Nature as she helped with the release.


Wareham Community Releases 18 Painted Hatchlings

Watch local newspapers, Wareham Week and the Wareham Courier, this week.  They should be covering the event.

Turtle Babies Will Be Released Saturday at Wareham Community Gardens — Public Welcomed

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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Nickel-Sized Painted Turtle Hatchling


New Releases at the Wareham Community Gardens

(Click on title above to see original article on Village Soup Community Network)

By Cyrus Moulton, Wareham Week

Sep 01, 2010

Come and join turtle experts Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse as they release eleven painted turtles into the wild on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Wareham Community Garden on Tihonet Road.

This was the second year that gardeners found painted turtles nesting alongside zucchini, squash and corn.  But the reptiles will be back.  Turtles return to lay eggs at the same place in which they were hatched, explained Lewis.  So these turtles are the garden’s hardiest perennials!

Nevertheless, Wieber Nourse and Lewis decided to help them out by covering the incubating eggs (there were originally two nests, which Wieber Nourse combined after the mother turtle had deposited her eggs and safely returned to the water) with protective fencing.

Two weeks ago, the hatchlings began to emerge.  Since then, Wieber Nourse and Lewis have been helping them get ready for their release, and they want lots of people – especially kids! – on hand to celebrate.

So 10 a.m. on Saturday.  “The turtles are ‘shells up’ and looking forward to freedom on Saturday morning,” said Lewis.