{"id":16236,"date":"2015-05-26T22:12:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=16236"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:12:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:12:36","slug":"first-southcoast-turtle-nester-of-2015-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=16236","title":{"rendered":"First SouthCoast Turtle Nester of 2015 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-053-1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16241\" title=\"POST first nester 053 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-053-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-053-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-053-480-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Young Female Nesting Snapping Turtle<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tuesday morning, May 26th, dawned with cloudy skies powered by a brisk westerly breeze. \u00c2\u00a0For the last couple of days, the Turtle Journal team observed movement of snappers and painted turtles in the bog channels of the SouthCoast, preparatory to nesting. \u00c2\u00a0We expected to see our first nesters with daybreak this morning and we were not disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Turtle Journal team with Rufus the Turtle Dog and Sue Wieber Nourse in the lead discovered the first SouthCoast nester of the 2015 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-051-1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16239\" title=\"POST first nester 051 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-051-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-051-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-051-480-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>First Nester of 2015 Season &#8212; Young Female Snapper<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rufus the Turtle Dog and Sue Wieber Nourse led the search that discovered the first SouthCoast nester of the 2015 season. \u00c2\u00a0A young female snapper, perhaps ten years old, industriously excavated her nest at the crest of a cranberry bog bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-200-1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16243\" title=\"POST first nester 200 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-200-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-200-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-200-480-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Young Female Snapping Turtle Nester<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She anchored her tail into the muddy soil to give her sound leverage and then scooped vigorously with her rear legs to shape a deep egg chamber to deposit her eggs where they will incubate for the next two to three months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-001-1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16237\" title=\"POST first nester 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-001-480-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Rufus Practices Studied Indifference<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rufus, remembering previous close encounters with these living dinosaurs, practiced studied indifference after first alerting us to the nesting snapper. \u00c2\u00a0Clearly, she saw the better part of valor in allowing the humans to approach the feisty snapper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-201-1200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16245\" title=\"POST first nester 201 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-201-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-201-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/POST-first-nester-201-480-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Young Female Snapper Charges Back to the Reservoir<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once done with her nest, the young snapper chugged like a Sherman tank across the narrow pathway and plunged into the reservoir with a might belly-flop. \u00c2\u00a0KA-SPLASH as water erupted like an exploding volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Female Nesting Snapping Turtle Tuesday morning, May 26th, dawned with cloudy skies powered by a brisk westerly breeze. \u00c2\u00a0For the last couple of days, the Turtle Journal team observed movement of snappers and painted turtles in the bog channels of the SouthCoast, preparatory to nesting. \u00c2\u00a0We expected to see our first nesters with daybreak 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