{"id":7248,"date":"2022-05-11T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:32:32","slug":"turtle-nesting-time-again-11may2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2022\/05\/11\/turtle-nesting-time-again-11may2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Nesting Time again 11May2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7249\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7249\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280101420_4851538154952100_2515400829461037946_n.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picture is of a nesting snapping turtle at Sandy Lake Last year<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Writes Clarence Stevens in the Halifax Field Naturalists Nature Archive today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is turtle nesting time again.<\/p>\n<p>This amazingly diverse area, Sandy Lake-Sackville River, houses three of Nova Scotia\u2019s four turtle species, snapping turtles, painted turtles and wood turtles.<\/p>\n<p>All are under protection as species at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Lake is only one of a handful of city lakes that still has a healthy turtle population.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most have few or none because humans have to deliberately decide turtles are worth protecting.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Turtle Patrol for more information.\u00a0<a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 oo9gr5id lrazzd5p\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1467598523346553\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1467598523346553\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Clarence is the author of the <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/species-lists\/avian-sar-report\/\">Avian &amp; Species at Risk Surveys of the proposed Sandy Lake \u2013 Sackville River Regional Park <\/a><\/strong><\/em>(2020)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writes Clarence Stevens in the Halifax Field Naturalists Nature Archive today: It is turtle nesting time again. This amazingly diverse area, Sandy Lake-Sackville River, houses three of Nova Scotia\u2019s four turtle species, snapping turtles, painted turtles and wood turtles. All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2022\/05\/11\/turtle-nesting-time-again-11may2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}