{"id":9702,"date":"2011-11-17T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T00:59:36","slug":"second-chance-at-life-last-2011-hatchling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9702","title":{"rendered":"Second Chance at Life &#8212; Last 2011 Hatchling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9704\" title=\"lh 2011 post 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"lh 2011 post 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-003-480-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Last 2011 Terrapin Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">November 14th saw the release of the last diamondback terrapin hatchling of 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 What is a hatchling doing in the Great White North in mid November?\u00c2\u00a0 Good question!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0As nests hatch out during the season, Turtle Journal often finds a few seemingly non-viable eggs lying at the bottom of the nest, looking in pretty sad condition.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re often sunken in and darkly discolored.\u00c2\u00a0 For all intents and purposes, they&#8217;re goners.\u00c2\u00a0 But we decided a decade ago to give these sorry-looking eggs a second chance; a last chance, really, to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 We place them in clean, moist sand and keep them in a warm environment.\u00c2\u00a0 Miraculously, we find a couple of hatchlings each year that earn that second chance at life, usually surfacing at the top of their bucket around Veterans Day or Thanksgiving or even Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 Once such survivor emerged over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9706\" title=\"lh 2011 post 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"lh 2011 post 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-002-480-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Rufus Whispers &#8220;Bon Chance&#8221; to Last Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">On Monday, the 14th, Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse and Rufus\u00c2\u00a0brought the lucky survivor back to\u00c2\u00a0her natal site at Turtle Point on South Wellfleet&#8217;s Lieutenant Island.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was gorgeous with sunshine and nearly 70 degree temperature.\u00c2\u00a0 Rufus, who celebrated her first birthday this weekend,\u00c2\u00a0couldn&#8217;t allow the baby turtle to escape into vegetative camouflage without whispering a few woofs of advice and giving her a gentle doggie kiss for good luck.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" 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\/kKVccGn9xTg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kKVccGn9xTg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Last 2011 Hatchling Scrambles to Freedom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A little hesitant at first to trade the safe, warm conditions of Turtle Journal refuge for the unpredictable wilds of freedom on Outer Cape Cod, the hatchling slowly acclimated to her new surroundings.\u00c2\u00a0 Within a few minutes she decided on her course of action and headed slightly upland to the bear berry (hog cranberry) vegetation of the embankment at the edge of Turtle Point.\u00c2\u00a0 She will burrow into the soft sand and spend her first winter in the deep slumber of brumation, waiting for the warm sunny days of May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9708\" title=\"lh 2011 post 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"lh 2011 post 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lh-2011-post-001-480-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Second Chance at Life for Lucky Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">For now this sweetheart has the title of the last diamondback terrapin hatchling of 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, with any luck, we hope to see that record broken by another sorry-looking egg and second chancer that will emerge while\u00c2\u00a0the Turtle Journal family is\u00c2\u00a0gathered for Thanksgiving or perhaps even Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last 2011 Terrapin Hatchling November 14th saw the release of the last diamondback terrapin hatchling of 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 What is a hatchling doing in the Great White North in mid November?\u00c2\u00a0 Good question!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0As nests hatch out during the season, Turtle Journal often finds a few seemingly non-viable eggs lying at the bottom of the nest, looking 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