{"id":3647,"date":"2009-12-06T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:33:55","slug":"december-sea-turtle-patrol-in-truro-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"December Sea Turtle Patrol in Truro, Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sea-turtle-on-tide-007-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3649\" title=\"sea turtle on tide 007 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sea-turtle-on-tide-007-840.jpg\" alt=\"sea turtle on tide 007 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sea-turtle-on-tide-007-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sea-turtle-on-tide-007-840-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Kemp&#8217;s Ridley Sea Turtle Rescued from Truro Beach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Weather and winds have been crazy and\u00c2\u00a0fickle this fall.\u00c2\u00a0 Earlier this week temperatures soared into the 60\u00c2\u00b0s and winds have blown around the compass, scattering wrack, flotsam, jetsam and sea turtles from Provincetown to Yarmouthport.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night weather struck again with a northerly gale and sporatic snow showers, pushing flood tides over seaside roadways.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal received a wake-up call at our 24\/7 hotline (<strong>508-274-5108<\/strong>)\u00c2\u00a0from a beachwalker in Dennis to report two Kemp&#8217;s ridley sea turtles at Howes Beach.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-arSPH-KWms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-arSPH-KWms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>December Sea Turtle Patrol on Bayside Truro Beaches<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">If you have a few minutes, join the Turtle Journal team on a virtual daylight\u00c2\u00a0patrol from Ryder Beach to Fisher Beach on the bayside of Truro on the Outer Cape.\u00c2\u00a0 Why Truro?\u00c2\u00a0 Because southwest and west-southwest breezes blow turtles trapped in Cape Cod onto the shores of Truro and Provincetown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bb-toad-000-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"582\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3651\" title=\"bb toad 000 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bb-toad-000-840.jpg\" alt=\"bb toad 000 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bb-toad-000-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bb-toad-000-840-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Cold-Stunned Toad at Bound Brook in North Wellfleet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The fickle fall weather of Cape Cod tricks not only sea turtles, but many other northern critters &#8230; including the two legged variety.\u00c2\u00a0 As the Turtle Journal team crossed the dunes at Bound Brook in North Wellfleet, we discovered a cold-stunned toad that had been seduced out of its hibernaculum by too warm\u00c2\u00a0conditions on Thursday and had succumbed to plunging temperatures Thursday night.\u00c2\u00a0 Regular readers may recall a similar incident at the EXACT SAME SPOT that occurred in mid-November 2008 (see <a title=\"Permanent Link to Leapfrogging Sea Turtle Patrol Yields Surprise\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=1635\" target=\"_blank\">Leapfrogging Sea Turtle Patrol Yields Surprise<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 As noted in earlier postings, this year&#8217;s season has been delayed several weeks by bizarre weather conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 We provided the specimen to the National Park Service at the Cape Cod National Seashore for more detailed study.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll let Turtle Journal readers know what scientists at the NPS discover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/first-snow-001-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3661\" title=\"first snow 001 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/first-snow-001-840.jpg\" alt=\"first snow 001 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/first-snow-001-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/first-snow-001-840-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Taylor the Turtle Dog Samples First Seasonal Snowfall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kemp&#8217;s Ridley Sea Turtle Rescued from Truro Beach Weather and winds have been crazy and\u00c2\u00a0fickle this fall.\u00c2\u00a0 Earlier this week temperatures soared into the 60\u00c2\u00b0s and winds have blown around the compass, scattering wrack, flotsam, jetsam and sea turtles from Provincetown to Yarmouthport.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night weather struck again with a northerly gale and sporatic snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}