{"id":9591,"date":"2011-09-03T21:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2011-09-03T21:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:37:45","slug":"110-hatchlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9591","title":{"rendered":"110 Hatchlings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-031-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9597\" title=\"processed 031 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-031-480.jpg\" alt=\"processed 031 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-031-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-031-480-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>110 Diamondback Terrapin Hatchlings @ Turtle Point<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Diamondback terrapin hatchlings keep emerging from Lieutenant Island nests harvested in advance of Hurricane Irene.\u00c2\u00a0 One hundred ten eager babies broke out of their eggshells and tunneled to the surface of their sand buckets in the Turtle Journal sunroom incubator on Monday and Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse released them at their natal site at the tip of Turtle Point on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<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\/CoPeKSTWfG0?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\/CoPeKSTWfG0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>110 Hatchlings Scramble to Safety<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Rarely does one have the opportunity to witness more than a hundred threatened terrapin hatchlings in one place at one time.\u00c2\u00a0 These healthy babies couldn&#8217;t wait for their chance to break for freedom and scramble to the safety of camouflaging vegetation.\u00c2\u00a0 In typical &#8220;drunkard&#8217;s walk&#8221; randomness we have observed for more than a decade of terrapin hatchling conservation, some\u00c2\u00a0hiked upslope into the thick bearberry (hog cranberry) cover.\u00c2\u00a0 Many slalomed downhill toward the salt marsh&#8217;s <em>Spartina patens<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 A few simply crawled in circles and then dug a temporary hiding spot right in the soft sand of Turtle Point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-035-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9593\" title=\"processed 035 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-035-480.jpg\" alt=\"processed 035 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-035-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/processed-035-480-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Terrapin Hatchlings Released on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hatchlings continue to emerge and Turtle Journal will return another large\u00c2\u00a0batch of terrapin babies to Turtle Point on Labor Day Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>110 Diamondback Terrapin Hatchlings @ Turtle Point Diamondback terrapin hatchlings keep emerging from Lieutenant Island nests harvested in advance of Hurricane Irene.\u00c2\u00a0 One hundred ten eager babies broke out of their eggshells and tunneled to the surface of their sand buckets in the Turtle Journal sunroom incubator on Monday and Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse released [&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\/9591"}],"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=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}