{"id":4329,"date":"2000-10-15T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2000-10-15T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T01:41:27","slug":"the-ides-in-ooze-sunday-15-october-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"The Ides in Ooze — Sunday 15 October 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10-15-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Blackfish Creek at Low Tide<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beware the Ides of October?\u00c2\u00a0 Nonsense.\u00c2\u00a0 The Land of Ooze embraces fall, tourist free, striper rich, and color full.\u00c2\u00a0 Requiting October reciprocated with a perfect autumnal bouquet this weekend.<\/p>\n

\"10-15-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Daybreak Water Temperature Drops to 12.5 Celsius<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While air temperatures ranged from 55 at sunrise to near 70 at sunset, water over the tidal flats held steadfastly to its chilly 12.5 Celsius.<\/p>\n

\"10-15-3<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleven-Year-Old Female Terrapin 959<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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After two days of mildness, several terrapins surfaced in this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s low tide parade.\u00c2\u00a0 One, Turtle 959, came late in the tide and was an easy hand-capture as she barreled through the rip.\u00c2\u00a0 A healthy 11-year-old female of 18.2 centimeters carapace length and a chunky 1140 grams, she seems well prepared for winter brumation.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"10-15-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Nest 177 Hatchlings Released<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0As temperatures climbed, I thought the moment ripe to release the maturing hatchlings from Nest 177 discovered on 12 October.\u00c2\u00a0 They were bathed and warmed and maggot free, ready to join their siblings and cousins in the rich nursery habitat of the south Lieutenant Island marshes.\u00c2\u00a0 After release at the wrack line, they scurried \u00e2\u20ac\u2122neath patens cover and quickly disappeared from sight.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"10-15-5<\/a><\/p>\n

Hatchlings Disappear Beneath Wrack<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The mutts and I patrolled the shoreline in forlorn hope of finding a last nest of the season.<\/p>\n

[Let me digress for a moment.\u00c2\u00a0 If any colleague or correspondent thought they heard me, sometime in the past, say something along the lines of, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While we don’t have a lot of data from which to extrapolate, limited evidence seems to indicate more Wellfleet hatchlings over-winter in nests than emerge directly upon hatching in the fall.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0. if you mistakenly thought you heard such a statement, I can assure you that I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possibly have said it and urge you to consider a good eye, ear, and nose specialist.\u00c2\u00a0 Extensive field research this fall points to an overwhelming majority of hatchlings emerging rather than over-wintering in nests.\u00c2\u00a0 But before you mis-hear me again, I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll wait until spring passes to actually say what you thought you just read.]<\/p>\n

\"10-15-6<\/a><\/p>\n

New Nest Emerges at Turtle Point<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nest 178 opened two-thirds up the west sandy slope of Turtle Point.\u00c2\u00a0 We had scoured this area yesterday and did not observe the opening.\u00c2\u00a0 Hand-excavation revealed 11 fresh egg shells from which hatchlings had emerged and escaped into the marsh.\u00c2\u00a0 As I gently lifted each fragment from the chamber, I detected that very familiar rustling in the sand.\u00c2\u00a0 At the absolute bottom of the nest, Hatchling 89 emerged rear first from her shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackfish Creek at Low Tide Beware the Ides of October?\u00c2\u00a0 Nonsense.\u00c2\u00a0 The Land of Ooze embraces fall, tourist free, striper rich, and color full.\u00c2\u00a0 Requiting October reciprocated with a perfect autumnal bouquet this weekend. Daybreak Water Temperature Drops to 12.5 Celsius While air temperatures ranged from 55 at sunrise to near 70 at sunset, water […]<\/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\/4329"}],"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=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}