{"id":7103,"date":"2010-08-17T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:50:59","slug":"wareham-gardens-yield-painted-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":"Wareham Gardens Yield Painted Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-001-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7106\" title=\"wcg 2010 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"wcg 2010 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-001-480-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Tiny Painted Turtle Hatchling Emerges<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT;\">Sunday afternoon brought the first crop of 2010 baby turtles\u00c2\u00a0to the Wareham Community Garden off Tihonet Road.\u00c2\u00a0 Amidst rows of\u00c2\u00a0stoplight red\u00c2\u00a0tomatoes, glistening peppers and crunchy cucumbers, between swirling vines of\u00c2\u00a0yellow crookneck\u00c2\u00a0squash and\u00c2\u00a0plump orange pumpkins, three painted turtle nests, each holding six eggs,\u00c2\u00a0incubated under the golden summer sun, growing to the rhythmic\u00c2\u00a0cadence of hoes, rakes and shovels, and watched over by local gardeners who seemed more concerned with their crop of baby turtles than their harvest of sugar snap peas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   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Protected\u00c2\u00a0under Predator Excluder<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT;\">For the second year community gardeners witnessed painted turtles scrambling out of the Parker Mills Pond in springtime\u00c2\u00a0to nest in perfectly prepared vegetable plots.\u00c2\u00a0 Natural history tells us that turtles have been laying nests in this spot for centuries, but only with the institution of these community gardens have humans stepped in to form a symbiotic partnership with their hard-shelled neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 The last week of May three nests were discovered, one in the act of being deposited, and all three clutches were protected by wire cages to keep them safe from hungry predators.\u00c2\u00a0 (See Turtle Journal, Turtle &#8220;Plants Crops&#8221; in Wareham Gardens, at <a href=\"mhtml:{F4BC25B1-CD37-4145-9133-29F3108B1CAE}mid:\/\/00000055\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6278\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6278<\/a>.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" 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\/Ss-JE_7ttQU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ss-JE_7ttQU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Painted Hatchling Being Born<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT;\">After nearly 80 days of incubation, turtle experts Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse decided it was time to check on Wareham&#8217;s turtle crop.\u00c2\u00a0 They removed the cages and carefully hand-excavated the soil to examine the eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 No tools can be as sensitive as fingertips in checking nests for fragile turtle eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 One plump white egg lay on top of the first nest and bounced on its own when gently stroked, revealing a lively little baby still tucked inside the protective eggshell.\u00c2\u00a0 As Lewis stroked his\u00c2\u00a0fingertip across the second egg, he heard the telltale rasp as though rubbing sandpaper, a sound that indicates that the egg had been &#8220;pipped&#8221; (pierced) by the hatchling&#8217;s eggtooth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-003-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7108\" title=\"wcg 2010 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"wcg 2010 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-003-480-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Painted Hatchling Sport Sharp Egg Tooth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Of the 18 eggs deposited by three female painted turtles, two had pipped naturally, one had succumbed to depredation by roots, one had been destroyed by insects, and fourteen\u00c2\u00a0more are waiting their turn to enter the world.\u00c2\u00a0 About a third of the eggs were significantly dehydrated due to this summer&#8217;s parching heat and limited sustained rain, but they&#8217;re now being stored in clean moist soil to try to restore enough hydration to help them through hatching.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan is to return these babies back to the Wareham Community Garden in a couple of weeks, once all the hatchlings have\u00c2\u00a0emerged and have become strong enough to take on the whole wild world\u00c2\u00a0by themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Human partners will have done their\u00c2\u00a0bit and the rest will be up to these tiny\u00c2\u00a01-inch long, 1\/4 ounce\u00c2\u00a0powerhouses of Nature.\u00c2\u00a0 For more than 200 million years turtles crawled and swam through the crevasses of time.\u00c2\u00a0 With a little help from their Wareham friends,\u00c2\u00a0future generation of turtles will be around to teach humans how it&#8217;s done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wareham-ma.villagesoup.com\/news\/story\/a-crop-of-painted-turtles\/2687\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7110\" title=\"wcg 2010 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"wcg 2010 004 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wcg-2010-004-480-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><em>Click Image for Press Coverage<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Cyrus Moulton of Wareham Week wrote about the turtle crop at the Wareham Community Gardens.\u00c2\u00a0 See &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wareham-ma.villagesoup.com\/news\/story\/a-crop-of-painted-turtles\/2687\" target=\"_blank\">A Crop of Painted Turtles<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny Painted Turtle Hatchling Emerges Sunday afternoon brought the first crop of 2010 baby turtles\u00c2\u00a0to the Wareham Community Garden off Tihonet Road.\u00c2\u00a0 Amidst rows of\u00c2\u00a0stoplight red\u00c2\u00a0tomatoes, glistening peppers and crunchy cucumbers, between swirling vines of\u00c2\u00a0yellow crookneck\u00c2\u00a0squash and\u00c2\u00a0plump orange pumpkins, three painted turtle nests, each holding six eggs,\u00c2\u00a0incubated under the golden summer sun, growing to the 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