{"id":12776,"date":"2013-04-29T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2013-04-30T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:24:06","slug":"new-lady-enters-sippican-mating-aggregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12776","title":{"rendered":"New Lady Enters Sippican Mating Aggregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-001-face-shot-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12777\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-001-face-shot-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-001-face-shot-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-001-face-shot-480-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Seven-Year-Old Female Diamondback Terrapin #35<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Turtle Journal team discovered a sweet 7-year-old female diamondback terrapin who had joined the Sippican Harbor mating aggregation this season.\u00c2\u00a0 A 2005 hatchling, this lovel young lady disappeared during the &#8220;lost (juvenile) years,&#8221; only to resurface today as a fully grown adult who will help restore the severely threatened Buzzards Bay population.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-005-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12781\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-005-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-005-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-005-480-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Female Terrapin #35\u00c2\u00a0Snorkeling in Sippican Harbor<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we paddled kayaks into\u00c2\u00a0the Head of Sippican Harbor, we spotted a\u00c2\u00a0couple of\u00c2\u00a0terrapins snorkeling in the mid afternoon sunshine.\u00c2\u00a0 In a few weeks, as water temperatures rise, this mating area will be filled with many male and female turtles looking love.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, only a handful of terrapins are active.\u00c2\u00a0 Capturing even one will be a challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12787\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-001-480-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Sue Wieber Nourse Turtling by Kayak in Sippican Harbor<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Netting terrapins from a kayak is a high skill activity in the best of conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 Today hardly qualified as best conditions\u00c2\u00a0with a stiff southerly breeze whipping up wave action and stirring the water into a frothy mocha latte.\u00c2\u00a0 Game for the challenge, Sue Wieber Nourse charged toward the snorkeling turtle with net at the ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-000-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12785\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-action-000-480-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Sue Wieber Nourse Net Female Terrapin #35<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She smoothly guided the kayak into position and swooped up the turtle racing across the bottom of the harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 This gorgeous young female proved a new recruit to the adult terrapin population, a young 7-year-old female who had just reached sexual maturity and will be nesting for the first time this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-35-000-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12783\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-35-000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-35-000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-sue-35-000-480-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Sue Wieber Nourse and Female Diamondback Terrapin #35<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back on shore, we measured and marked her as diamondback terrapin #35.\u00c2\u00a0 Her shell measured\u00c2\u00a0nearly 7\u00c2\u00a0inches long and 5.6 inches wide.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to\u00c2\u00a0contrast\u00c2\u00a0her\u00c2\u00a0with Cape Cod\u00c2\u00a0terrapins that\u00c2\u00a0don&#8217;t reach maturity until at least\u00c2\u00a0one\u00c2\u00a0year\u00c2\u00a0later\u00c2\u00a0and yet are still nearly an inch shorter in length.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12779\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/post-35-release-002-480-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Sue Wieber Nourse Release Female Terrapin #35<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We welcomed this newest recruit to the adult terrapin population of Buzzards Bay and released her back into Sippican Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope to find her nesting in early June to continue the cycle and to save her offspring to join the Sippican mating aggregation in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-Year-Old Female Diamondback Terrapin #35 The Turtle Journal team discovered a sweet 7-year-old female diamondback terrapin who had joined the Sippican Harbor mating aggregation this season.\u00c2\u00a0 A 2005 hatchling, this lovel young lady disappeared during the &#8220;lost (juvenile) years,&#8221; only to resurface today as a fully grown adult who will help restore the severely threatened 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