2008

 

About Index

 

 

 

 Snappy, Houdini and Van Gogh

 

 

 November Springs Deathtrap on Turtle Hatchlings

 

 

 Two Giant Ocean Sunfish Wash Up on Cape Cod Beaches

 

 

 More Torpedo Rays Raise More Questions

 

 

 Battle of Shirttail Point — Seals Versus Seagulls

 

 

 Gourmet Art – Bay Scallops

 

 

Danger — Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object

 

 

Torpedoes Los!

 

 

 Shocking Discovery! Torpedo Ray in Wellfleet Bay

 

 

 Celebrating November – Basking with Seals

 

 

 Exotic Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola)

 

 

 Foul Play on the Docks Starring Barnacle Bill

 

 Rafter of Turkeys Gobble Thanksgiving Overture

 

 

 

 Wellfleet Harbor Seals: “Thanks for All the Fish!”

 

 

 Yikes! 11-Foot Blue Shark in Wellfleet Bay

 

 

 First Cold-Stunned Sea Turtle of 2008 Rescued

 

 

 Tiny Hatchling Beats Cold Front by a Nose

 

 

 Very Late Spotted Turtle in Brainard Marsh

 

 

 Red Fox: Wildlife on the Edge

 

 

 European Invaders: Periwinkles

 

 

 In Search of the Great Pumpkin

 

 

 Wake of Buzzards Haunts Wellfleet Harbor

 

 

 Five Star Day on West Island

 

 

 Monet School of Menhaden

 

 

 Rescuing a Crabby Hermit (While Others Chase a Mermaid Manatee)

 

 

 Last Hatchling?

              

Breakfast Kippers! Sunrise Over Buzzards Bay

          

What’s the Buzz?

 

Menhaden Arrive in Sippican Harbor on Buzzards Bay

 

 

 Menhaden Seek Safe Harbor in Wellfleet; Still Absent in Sippican Harbor

 

Meet “Snappy” at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

 

Northeast Diamondback Terrapin Working Group Meets at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

 

 

 The Last Terrapins

 

 

 The New Naturalists: Next Generation of Herpetologists

 

 

 Skill + Luck + Patience Yield Best Dune Emergence Sequence

 

 

 Behind the Scenes: Best Dune Emergence Sequence

 

 

 Monarchs of the SouthCoast

 

 

 Attack of the Praying Mantis

 

 

 As Arrival of Fall Speeds Up, Turtles Slow Down in the Great White North

 

 

 Abiogenesis: Spontaneous Generation of Life 

 

   

 Headcount!

 

 

 Road Warrior: Eastern Box Turtle Strolls Down Interstate

 

 

 Wisdom of the Ancient Hatchling

 

 

 Fox Island Marsh Conservation Area Welcomes Endangered Babies

 

 

Boston Harbor Educators Conference on October 4th

 

 

 Confronting Maggot Infestation in Wareham Turtle Garden

 

 

 Getting the Story & Putting You in the Picture

 

For Some Hatchling, Nursery Lies in the Uplands

 

 Rescuing Live Hatchlings from Maggot Infested Nests

 

 

 Sad Tale of Three Dead Leatherback Sea Turtles

 

 

 Two-Ton Vehicle Versus Quarter Ounce Hatchling

 

  

 Saving a Critically Endangered Sea Turtle

 

 

 Tracking Terrapin Hatchlings

 

 

 Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings

 

 

Landslide!

 

Peek Inside the Egg Chamber

 

 “All Work and No Play” Hatchling Style

 

Neither Angst Nor Doubt

 

Two-Headed Diamondback Terrapin Hatchling

 

The Hatchling Also Rises

 

Flying Insect Ovipositing on Terrapin Nesting Dune

 

Hatchling Emerges

 

Run for Your Life

 

Not Every “Emergence Hole” Hosts Hatchlings

 

Photo courtesy Sue Wieber Nourse, Cape Cod Consultants

 

 Big year for baby diamondbacks on Cape Cod

 

 

Sea Nettles Invade Assonet Bay

 

Release of Little Dude

 

 

 Turtle Eye View of a Perfect World at Peace with Nature