{"id":13431,"date":"2013-06-05T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13431"},"modified":"2013-06-07T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T00:34:05","slug":"first-terrapin-nest-broad-marsh-wareham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13431","title":{"rendered":"First Terrapin Nest @ Broad Marsh (Wareham)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-and-19-eggs-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13435\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-and-19-eggs-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-and-19-eggs-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-and-19-eggs-001-480-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Diamondback Terrapin #821 and Her 19 Eggs<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michele Zollo discovered the first nesting terrapin at her Broad Marsh (Wareham) turtle garden on Wednesday morning, June 5th.\u00c2\u00a0 Terrapin #821 is an overachiever and it&#8217;s hard to imagine how she can find room for all those eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-profile-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13439\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-profile-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-profile-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-profile-001-480-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>First Broad Marsh Terrapin Nester of 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We first saw this young lady in June of last year when she was only nine years old.\u00c2\u00a0 Even then she already exceeded expectations with a 17-egg nest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-19-eggs-and-127-grams-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13433\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-19-eggs-and-127-grams-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-19-eggs-and-127-grams-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-19-eggs-and-127-grams-001-480-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Nineteen Terrapin Eggs Weighing 127 Grams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today&#8217;s 19 eggs hit the scales at 127 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 They are a bit on the small size with an average weight of only 6.7 grams per egg.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-nest-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13437\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-nest-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-nest-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook-821-nest-003-480-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Nineteen Terrapin Eggs in Protected Turtle Garden<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Terrapin #821&#8217;s ninteen eggs were relocated into\u00c2\u00a0a protected turtle garden, where Don Lewis sculpted the sand into a perfect simulated turtle nest.\u00c2\u00a0 Michele and Louis Zollo created this turtle garden to serve as protected nesting habitat for diamondback terrapins in the Broad Marsh area of Wareham.\u00c2\u00a0 They placed a predator excluder cage above the nest and encircled it with an additional chicken wire barrier to protect it from voracious predators.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamondback Terrapin #821 and Her 19 Eggs Michele Zollo discovered the first nesting terrapin at her Broad Marsh (Wareham) turtle garden on Wednesday morning, June 5th.\u00c2\u00a0 Terrapin #821 is an overachiever and it&#8217;s hard to imagine how she can find room for all those eggs. 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