Great Job! Your story, along with a women who stopped to move a young northern water snake off the rail trail in Cheshire yesterday gives me renewed hope.
Thank You!
--- On Tue, 6/26/12, Alexandra Echandi <aechandiesq@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Alexandra Echandi <aechandiesq@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin
To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 9:00 PM
Amazing story!
On Jun 26, 2012 8:52 PM, "Carol Linguanti" <luvbirds@warwick.net> wrote:
> AWESOME!
>
> The eggs can be hatched for sure! Thank you for caring!
>
>
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Treeswallow5@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 immediately
> and 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 dripped
> down, 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 immediately
> and 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 dripped
> down, 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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> >
> >
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>
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