Re: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin

You did well. I too add, thanks for caring. All we can do is try.

Julie Roesler

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From: redknot <redknot@optonline.net>
To: vernalpool <vernalpool@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 8:52 pm
Subject: Re: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin

Mike: Kudos to you for caring enough to stop. I recently did the same thing for a male box turtle on a busy highway. Fortunately he wasn't hit and is now safely residing in the middle of a large county park here on Long Island.

John Turner

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From: Treeswallow5@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:55 pm
Subject: Re: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin
To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com

>
> Thanks alot....haven't met a turtle I don't like or won't stop
> for!!!!!
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie
> Edge, Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PHILLIP BONN
> To: vernalpool
> Sent: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 8:48 pm
> Subject: RE: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin
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> Great job!
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> From: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:vernalpool@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Treeswallow5@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:46 PM
> To: Bio-mass@yahoogroups.com; vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin
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> Today around 2 PM on the Wareham/Marion town line, as I was
> crossing the
> Weweantic River, I saw a diamondback terrapin trying to cross
> the four
> lanes.....I pulled a Jason Statham "Transporter" -type U-turn
> immediatelyand went back, parked in the middle lane with
> flashers going (it really
> wasn't that dramatic, as no cars were coming yet) and snatched
> her up. But
> as I carried her back to the car, her head was tucked in, blood
> drippeddown, and the back legs dangled.
>
> Damn!! One car too late!!...
>
> I place her on the mat under my feet and sped off to the home of
> a couple of
> turtle experts who just happen to live in Marion. Susan Weiber
> Nourse and
> Don Lewis... They have been monitoring and researching these
> terrapins in
> Southeastern MA for 20 years or more. Also volunteering out on
> the Cape at
> Wellfleet Bay.
>
> My immediate thoughts were that if she was going to die, at
> least maybe they
> could save some eggs (why else would she be on land?) and also
> see if she
> was one their marked individuals.
>
> I arrived at the their home...ran to the door....explained the
> situation (I
> had already brought another dead female there last year from the same
> spot!)...we went back to the car and as I was handing her over
> to Susan, she
> emitted an egg!!! Susan asked me to check the car, and I found
> another egg
> on the mat!!!! As we examined her and discussed the possibility
> of her
> surviving these injuries, she deposited two more eggs in Susan's
> hand!!!!Holy Crap!!!!
>
> As of now (8:00 PM) I do not know her fate, but hopefully at
> least four of
> her offspring will stand a chance of making it.
>
> Wow...what a day
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie Edge,
> Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
>
> Today around 2 PM on the Wareham/Marion town line, as I was
> crossing the
> Weweantic River, I saw a diamondback terrapin trying to cross
> the four
> lanes.....I pulled a Jason Statham "Transporter" -type U-turn
> immediatelyand went back, parked in the middle lane with
> flashers going (it really
> wasn't that dramatic, as no cars were coming yet) and snatched
> her up. But
> as I carried her back to the car, her head was tucked in, blood
> drippeddown, and the back legs dangled.
>
> Damn!! One car too late!!...
>
> I place her on the mat under my feet and sped off to the home of
> a couple of
> turtle experts who just happen to live in Marion. Susan Weiber
> Nourse and
> Don Lewis... They have been monitoring and researching these
> terrapins in
> Southeastern MA for 20 years or more. Also volunteering out on
> the Cape at
> Wellfleet Bay.
>
> My immediate thoughts were that if she was going to die, at
> least maybe they
> could save some eggs (why else would she be on land?) and also
> see if she
> was one their marked individuals.
>
> I arrived at the their home...ran to the door....explained the
> situation (I
> had already brought another dead female there last year from the same
> spot!)...we went back to the car and as I was handing her over
> to Susan, she
> emitted an egg!!! Susan asked me to check the car, and I found
> another egg
> on the mat!!!! As we examined her and discussed the possibility
> of her
> surviving these injuries, she deposited two more eggs in Susan's
> hand!!!!Holy Crap!!!!
>
> As of now (8:00 PM) I do not know her fate, but hopefully at
> least four of
> her offspring will stand a chance of making it.
>
> Wow...what a day
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie Edge,
> Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
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