{"id":12388,"date":"2013-03-14T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2013-03-13T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:18:43","slug":"let-the-turtling-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12388","title":{"rendered":"Let the Turtling Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-spring-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12394\" title=\"post spotted turtle spring 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-spring-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-spring-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-spring-002-480-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Female Spotted Turtle and Sue Wieber Nourse<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Torrential rains and rising temperatures last night gave way to sunshine and 50 degree temperatures this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Those conditions spurred SouthCoast fresh water turtles to emerge from winter brumation where they have kept safe and comfortable through the last 5 1\/2 months.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse found two basking spotted turtles at a East Marion pond and captured one of them, a mature female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-13-closeup-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12392\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-13-closeup-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-13-closeup-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-spotted-turtle-13-closeup-002-480-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Mature Female Spotted Turtle #13<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turtle Journal has followed the life cycle of this spotted turtle, #13, for many years.\u00c2\u00a0 She is unique with scutal anomalies all along her carapace.\u00c2\u00a0 She also sports a large bump under her shell at the 4th vetebral.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite these &#8220;flaws,&#8221; Lucky #13 has been assessed as healthy and normal when we find her each spring happily\u00c2\u00a0basking with one of the guys.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was no different.\u00c2\u00a0 (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9886\" target=\"_blank\">The Adorable Couple: Spotted Turtles Emerge<\/a> from March 14th, 2012.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-painted-turtle-spring-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12390\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-painted-turtle-spring-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-painted-turtle-spring-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-painted-turtle-spring-001-480-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Painted Turtle Basks in Abandoned Bog Reservoir<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also this morning, Don Lewis discovered a large painted turtle basking on a rock in the middle of the reservoir of an abandoned cranberry bog in Marion.\u00c2\u00a0 This location will sport tens of basking turtles once spring sets in.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet this morning, we found only this lone turtle that had emerged early from brumation.\u00c2\u00a0 Nevertheless, with spotted and painted turtles on the move, the game&#8217;s afoot.\u00c2\u00a0 Let the turtling begin!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Spotted Turtle and Sue Wieber Nourse Torrential rains and rising temperatures last night gave way to sunshine and 50 degree temperatures this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Those conditions spurred SouthCoast fresh water turtles to emerge from winter brumation where they have kept safe and comfortable through the last 5 1\/2 months.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse found two basking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12409,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions\/12409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}