{"id":9568,"date":"2011-09-02T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9568"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:24:49","slug":"hurricane-irenes-gift-hatchlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9568","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irene’s Gift: Hatchlings!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Handful of Hatchlings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hurricane Irene stormed into New England on Saturday night and Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Before its arrival, the Turtle Journal team harvested diamondback terrapin nests vulnerable to the forecast storm surge.\u00c2\u00a0 Each nest was carefully excavated.\u00c2\u00a0 Eggs were transferred to sand-filled buckets that were moved to the sunroom incubator at Turtle Journal Central.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Irene Sweeps through Sippican Harbor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As\u00c2\u00a0Hurricane Irene\u00c2\u00a0approached and as the barometer plunged, hatchlings tunneled to the surface of their bucket nests.\u00c2\u00a0 They circled and waited, never noticing the 70 mph gusts, never hearing the limbs crashing around them, unconcerned that electricity and modernity disappeared in the intensity of the storm.\u00c2\u00a0 They simply waited for release.<\/p>\n

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Sue Wieber Nourse Documents Release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday after the storm passed, the Turtle Journal team returned\u00c2\u00a0fifty hatchlings to Turtle Point on Lieutenant Island in South Wellfleet on Outer Cape Cod.\u00c2\u00a0 Placed at the tip of Turtle Point, hatchlings scrambled in every direction looking for the cover and safety of vegetation.<\/p>\n

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Terrapin Hatchlings Scramble to Safety<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One hundred ten\u00c2\u00a0more hatchling were released on Thursday, and several dozen that have emerged overnight will see freedom on Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing like a tropical storm to kick the diamondback terrapin hatching season into high gear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Handful of Hatchlings Hurricane Irene stormed into New England on Saturday night and Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Before its arrival, the Turtle Journal team harvested diamondback terrapin nests vulnerable to the forecast storm surge.\u00c2\u00a0 Each nest was carefully excavated.\u00c2\u00a0 Eggs were transferred to sand-filled buckets that were moved to the sunroom incubator at Turtle Journal Central. Hurricane Irene […]<\/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\/9568"}],"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=9568"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}