{"id":9495,"date":"2011-07-09T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2011-07-09T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:41:31","slug":"terrapin-9898-nests-on-fifth-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9495","title":{"rendered":"Terrapin 9898 Nests on Fifth Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" 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\/_pMEw_gWtmQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_pMEw_gWtmQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Terrapin 9898 Completing Nest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, Fifth Avenue.\u00c2\u00a0 But no Macy&#8217;s, no Saks, no New York, New York.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, beautiful diamondback terrapin #9898\u00c2\u00a0 is nesting on the one-lane dirt road Fifth Avenue on Lieutenant Island in South Wellfleet.\u00c2\u00a0 This Fifth Avenue is renowned as the epicenter of terrapin nesting in the Northeast, not high scale shopping for which the other Fifth Avenue is noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the midst of a torrential downpour and dramatic thunderstorm, Terrapin 9898 dug her second and final nest of the season in the west tire track of Fifth Avenue.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal came across her as lightning danced in the tree tops overhead and thunder claps shook the island.\u00c2\u00a0 We parked the car to block road traffic to protect her vulnerability from disturbance and potential injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After she completed the nest, we excavated\u00c2\u00a0her eggs and moved them to a safer location on Turtle Point.\u00c2\u00a0 Because she had nested in the midst of the storm, her eggs were floating in several inches of water inside the egg chamber.\u00c2\u00a0 Terrapin 9898 scrambled down the bank and slipped into the salt marsh.\u00c2\u00a0 With her responsibilities to the next generation done for 2011, her key task between now and 1 October\u00c2\u00a0is to forage in order to restore the 20% body mass she has invested in her two clutches, so she can survive the cold hard winter ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrapin 9898 Completing Nest Yes, Fifth Avenue.\u00c2\u00a0 But no Macy&#8217;s, no Saks, no New York, New York.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, beautiful diamondback terrapin #9898\u00c2\u00a0 is nesting on the one-lane dirt road Fifth Avenue on Lieutenant Island in South Wellfleet.\u00c2\u00a0 This Fifth Avenue is renowned as the epicenter of terrapin nesting in the Northeast, not high scale shopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/9495"}],"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=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}