{"id":5448,"date":"2010-03-18T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2010-03-18T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:50:22","slug":"spotted-turtle-and-wood-frog-celebrate-saint-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5448","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Turtle and Wood Frog Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Female Spotted Turtle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Warm sunshine and Saint Patrick’s Day brought out the best in nature.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal visited the pond at Brainard Marsh on the South Coast of Massachusetts to see what might be stirring.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse found a\u00c2\u00a0mature\u00c2\u00a0female spotted turtle and a tiny\u00c2\u00a0spotted yearling basking on the moss covered banks of shallow Brainard Pond, and a fire red wood frog catching the late morning\u00c2\u00a0rays on the surface of the pond.<\/p>\n

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Mature Female Spotted Turtle with Head Withdrawn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The mature female, caught unaware in the act of basking, withdrew her head inside\u00c2\u00a0her\u00c2\u00a0dark shell adorned with yellow spots.\u00c2\u00a0 The yearling spotted turtle was so camouflaged that it lay hidden\u00c2\u00a0in “plain sight.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Once Sue recognized that the tiny leaf was actually a spotted yearling, she crept stealthily toward it.\u00c2\u00a0 When just within grasp of the tiny critter, it hopped like a spring-loaded frog from the bank into the pond in\u00c2\u00a0a single\u00c2\u00a0leap.<\/p>\n

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Mature Female Spotted\u00c2\u00a0Turtle in Brainard Marsh<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The short video clip\u00c2\u00a0documents the discovery and the release of the mature female spotted turtle at Brainard Marsh in Marion, Massachusetts on Saint Patrick’s Day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mature Female Spotted Turtle Carapace and Plastron<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Spotted turtles are a real beauty!<\/p>\n

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Wood Frog from Brainard Marsh Pond<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Basking on the surface of Brainard Pond, a fire red wood frog caught Sue’s attention.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve never tried to capture a slippery frog in its own milieu, then you haven’t the slightest concept of the phrase “Mission Impossible.”\u00c2\u00a0 Undeterred, Sue plunged into the mucky water and snagged the wood frog in a swingle swoop.<\/p>\n

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Wood Frog Released Back into Brainard Pond<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While wood frogs are reportedly plentiful in the Northeast, this one represents the first\u00c2\u00a0that Turtle Journal has\u00c2\u00a0identified on the South Coast of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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Wood Frog<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spotted turtles and a gaudy wood frog … not a bad showing from nature for Saint Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Female Spotted Turtle Warm sunshine and Saint Patrick’s Day brought out the best in nature.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal visited the pond at Brainard Marsh on the South Coast of Massachusetts to see what might be stirring.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse found a\u00c2\u00a0mature\u00c2\u00a0female spotted turtle and a tiny\u00c2\u00a0spotted yearling basking on the moss covered banks of shallow Brainard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448"}],"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=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}