{"id":6398,"date":"2010-06-06T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2010-06-06T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:54:24","slug":"depredated-terrapin-nests-on-southcoasts-aucoot-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Depredated Terrapin Nests on South Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SWN-in-the-field-001-fix-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6404\" title=\"SWN in the field 001 fix 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SWN-in-the-field-001-fix-480.jpg\" alt=\"SWN in the field 001 fix 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SWN-in-the-field-001-fix-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SWN-in-the-field-001-fix-480-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>Sue Wieber Nourse Checks SouthCoast\u00c2\u00a0Nest Sites<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">More heat, more thunderstorms, more turtle nests &#8230; it must be summer on the south coast of New England.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team and volunteers investigated diamondback terrapin\u00c2\u00a0nesting sites from Outer Cape Cod to the Taunton River today.\u00c2\u00a0 A visitor to Lieutenant Island in South Wellfleet called the Mass Audubon Sanctuary to report that a terrapin had nested in the middle of Way 100 (Marsh Road), a one-lane dirt road along the south side of the island that has become one of the densest nesting locations in all of New England.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl Brodeur, Turtle Journal&#8217;s eyes and ears on the Taunton River, called to report he had captured a female on a nesting run at Assonet Bay Shores Beach in Freetown and that perhaps a dozen terrapins had nested the previous day on the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, most nests had been depredated overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6400\" title=\"depredated nest AC 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"depredated nest AC 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-002-480-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>Freshly Depredated Terrapin Nest on Aucoot Cove<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Sue Wieber Nourse and Don Lewis from Turtle Journal checked Aucoot Cove between Marion and Mattapoisett off Buzzards Bay this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 We found one freshly depredated nest with eleven still moist yolks.\u00c2\u00a0 Aucoot Cove serves as the largest nesting location that has been documented so far on the west bank of Buzzards Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-001-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6402\" title=\"depredated nest AC 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"depredated nest AC 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/depredated-nest-AC-001-480-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Aucoot Cove Nest with 14 Depredated Eggs<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Another nest at the elbow of Aucoot Cove contained fourteen recently depredated eggs, probably consumed by predators last night.\u00c2\u00a0 We found no turtles either at Aucoot Cove or Hammetts Cove on the east side of Sippican Harbor, probably because heavy winds and storm clouds have taken command of the afternoon sky.\u00c2\u00a0 Severe thunderstorm alerts and a rare tornado warning are in effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Sue Wieber Nourse Checks SouthCoast\u00c2\u00a0Nest Sites More heat, more thunderstorms, more turtle nests &#8230; it must be summer on the south coast of New England.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team and volunteers investigated diamondback terrapin\u00c2\u00a0nesting sites from Outer Cape Cod to the Taunton River today.\u00c2\u00a0 A visitor to Lieutenant Island in South Wellfleet called the Mass [&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\/6398"}],"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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}