{"id":2106,"date":"2009-01-30T21:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2009-01-30T21:40:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T02:40:33","slug":"turtle-journal-team-speaks-at-wareham-free-library-on-valentines-day-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Journal Team Speaks at Wareham Free Library on Valentine’s Day 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse in the Field<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the request of the Wareham Land Trust, Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse will offer a multimedia presentation on turtles of the South Coast and Cape Cod on February 14th, 2009 at the Wareham Free Library.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the magic of virtual media, they\u00c2\u00a0will transform the library into a summer field site, so that kids from four to one hundred four can experience first-hand\u00c2\u00a0the transformational moments of turtle exploration and discovery.\u00c2\u00a0 As folks enter the library, they will cast off the chills of one of the coldest winters in active memory.<\/p>\n

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Ice Bound Wellfleet Bay<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

How cold is it, Johnny?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, take a look\u00c2\u00a0above at Wellfleet Bay, one of the principal sites we will visit in our presentation, which\u00c2\u00a0was locked in imbricated ice floes when we visited just yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 If you detect a shake in the camera, you’re right.\u00c2\u00a0 My bare hands were less than steady as icy winds whistled across the icebergs.<\/p>\n

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Male Eastern Box Turtle on Lazy Summer Stroll<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But we’ll put aside the ice and the cold, and huddle close to the screen to capture the reflected warmth of summer adventures.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll watch as turtles wake from winter slumber and bask in bright sunshine to gain enough energy to resume activity.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll sneak\u00c2\u00a0a peek\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0adults\u00c2\u00a0wander into the singles bar, known less affectionately, but more scientifically as a mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll hide nearby\u00c2\u00a0to observe\u00c2\u00a0females trek across obstacles to reach their natal nesting sites and to deposit a clutch of eggs representing the next potential generation of turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, we’ll watch as hatchlings emerge to take their first breath of air as they scramble to the relative safety of nursery habitat.<\/p>\n

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Endangered Red-Bellied Cooter Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Whether an endangered red-bellied cooter,<\/p>\n

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Diamondback Terrapin and Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

… or a threatened diamondback terrapin or even an Eastern box turtle, listed as a species of special concern, we’ll learn secrets about what makes these shelled critters such wild and wonderful bellwether species of our natural world.\u00c2\u00a0 As their populations tumble, so goes the quality of the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 As they prosper, we see positive advances in the quality of our lives, too.<\/p>\n

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900-Pound Leatherback Entangled\u00c2\u00a0in Lobster Buoy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ll also come face to face (virtually) with five species of threatened and endangered sea turtles that inhabit our bays and coastline.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll rescue a 900-pound\u00c2\u00a0entangled leatherback sea turtle trapped in lobster buoy lines in deep summer.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll patrol storm tossed beaches of Cape Cod Bay in the fall to rescue the most endangered sea turtle in the world, the Kemp’s ridley, as well as loggerheads and green sea turtles (see Loggerhead Days of December<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Wareham Land Trust Poster<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally and hopefully if the weather gods cooperate, we will have a couple of surprise guests on hand to personally greet each and every member of the audience, and to reveal in their own reptilian way what it’s like to be a tiny turtle struggling to survive in an overly caffeinated, adrenalized and asphalted world.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, turtle talk straight from the reptilian soul.\u00c2\u00a0 A member of the Turtle Journal team will be on hand to translate with appropriate, or should I say inappropriate, turtle words expurgated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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