{"id":15504,"date":"2014-11-10T15:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15504"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:38:07","slug":"diamondbacks-of-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15504","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks of New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Tom Richardson, <a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandboating.com\/news\/diamondbacks-of-new-england.html\" target=\"_blank\">New England Boating<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-815-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15511\" title=\"post boating diamondback terrapin 815 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-815-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-815-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-815-480-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Female Diamondback Terrapin #815 in Blackfish Creek<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandboating.com\/news\/diamondbacks-of-new-england.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for full article by Tom Richardson in New England Boating<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the fall of 1998, Sue Wieber Nourse was lecturing in her marine science lab at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, when a small, olive turtle scrambled across the threshold of the open door and into the room. Unsure of what species it was, she checked it against her reference sources and identified it as a juvenile diamondback terrapin, the only estuarine turtle in North America. What made the discovery especially intriguing was that diamondback terrapins were thought to be extinct in the Marion area, where shoreline development has eliminated much of their habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-sue-examines-DBT-in-Sippican-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15531\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-sue-examines-DBT-in-Sippican-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-sue-examines-DBT-in-Sippican-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-sue-examines-DBT-in-Sippican-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 Examines Diamondback Terrapin in Sippican Harbor<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until a few years later that Wieber Nourse attended a talk given by turtle researcher Don Lewis. When she told Lewis of her discovery, he immediately volunteered to scout the Marion waterfront for likely diamondback habitat. By the time their investigations were over, Wieber Nourse and Lewis had found several spots where the turtles might still be able to live, breed and nest. And 2 years later they were married, brought together by a most unlikely matchmaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-eye-to-eye-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15519\" title=\"post boating eye to eye 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-eye-to-eye-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-eye-to-eye-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-eye-to-eye-480-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Don Lewis Eye-to-Eye with Newborn Terrapin Hatchling<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don Lewis meets a lot of people through turtles, including this writer, who read about the Marion discovery in a local newspaper. While that alone was enough to pique my interest, the same article also mentioned that nesting diamondbacks had been found in Aucoot Cove, where I happen to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-nesting-terrapin-aucoot-cove-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15525\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-nesting-terrapin-aucoot-cove-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-nesting-terrapin-aucoot-cove-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-nesting-terrapin-aucoot-cove-480-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Diamondback Terrapin Nesting on Aucoot Cove Beach off Buzzards Bay<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Terrapins among us? This was news indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-DBT-hatchling-release-aucoot-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15507\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-DBT-hatchling-release-aucoot-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-DBT-hatchling-release-aucoot-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-DBT-hatchling-release-aucoot-480-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Diamondback Terrapin Hatchlings from Aucoot Cove off Buzzards Bay<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Hunting for Terrapins<\/h2>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandboating.com\/news\/diamondbacks-of-new-england.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read full New England Boating article on line by clicking here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-829-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15513\" title=\"post boating diamondback terrapin 829 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-829-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-829-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/post-boating-diamondback-terrapin-829-480-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Female Diamondback Terrapin #829<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Richardson, New England Boating Female Diamondback Terrapin #815 in Blackfish Creek (Click here for full article by Tom Richardson in New England Boating) In the fall of 1998, Sue Wieber Nourse was lecturing in her marine science lab at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, when a small, olive turtle scrambled across the threshold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,827,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504"}],"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=15504"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15540,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions\/15540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}