{"id":5081,"date":"2001-04-29T07:58:28","date_gmt":"2001-04-29T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:10:55","slug":"re-awakening-%e2%80%94-29-april-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"Re-Awakening \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 29 April 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Still blowing from the north, winds subsided to less than 10 knots and air temperature lingered in the mid 40s, but water over the tidal flats had climbed back to 51\u00c2\u00b0F by 9:30 this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, conditions moderated just enough to allow a couple of terrapins to re-emerge from frozen slumber with the renewed promise of springtime.\u00c2\u00a0 Horseshoe crabs resumed mating in numbers along the edge of low-tide sandbars in the middle of Blackfish Creek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5083\" title=\"04-29-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"04-29-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-1-480-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Blackfish Creek &#8220;Rip&#8221; at Low Tide &#8212; Turtle Sampling Site<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">And while sometimes I whine a bit about murky conditions in the turbulent rapids over the rip, I must admit that this morning even I couldn&#8217;t find much to complain about.\u00c2\u00a0 Water visibility was near perfect and you could see anything that moved through and along Blackfish Creek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5084\" title=\"04-29-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"04-29-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-2-480-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Large Male Terrapin #710 Paddling through the Rip<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A mature male terrapin, #710, plopped over the rapids and bobbed along the shallows, snorkeling for air as he paddled toward the safety of deeper water.\u00c2\u00a0 Last seen on the evening of 3 June 2000 coming through the same rip, this turtle looked like he enjoyed a good 2000 summer season and survived the winter quite well, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Already one of the largest males we have observed in Wellfleet Harbor at 13.1 centimeters carapace length, #710 managed to gain another 5% mass to reach 340 grams body weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-3-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5085\" title=\"04-29-3 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-3-480.jpg\" alt=\"04-29-3 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-3-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-3-480-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Ten-Year-Old Female Terrapin #1051 Missing &#8220;Toes&#8221; and Claws<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A 10-year-old female (#1051) spun through the rapids at almost the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 She was nearly 17 centimeters long and weighed in at 844 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 On closer examination, I noticed she had lost all the toes on her right front limb, and several of the toes and claws on her right rear leg were also gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Neither injury slowed her down.\u00c2\u00a0 She hissed a warning as I snatched her from the rip and on release she sped toward the creek, leaving a peg hole where her right limb touched the sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5086 aligncenter\" title=\"04-29-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-4.jpg\" alt=\"04-29-4\" width=\"405\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-4.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-29-4-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Terrapin #710 Returns to Blackfish Creek; Note Striped Male Tail<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Both turtles seemed stone cold to the touch when I first recovered them from the rip.\u00c2\u00a0 As I measured, weighed, documented, and marked them, they warmed up considerably.\u00c2\u00a0 And by the time they were released, they had become fully alert and active.\u00c2\u00a0 They raced from the beach to the water line and paddled off into the creek at full speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still blowing from the north, winds subsided to less than 10 knots and air temperature lingered in the mid 40s, but water over the tidal flats had climbed back to 51\u00c2\u00b0F by 9:30 this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, conditions moderated just enough to allow a couple of terrapins to re-emerge from frozen slumber with the renewed [&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\/5081"}],"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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}