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April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #1: Andy



Here is the terrapin who laid our first nest of the season on June 10th at 12:15 p.m.! We named her “Andy” after our neighbor, who found her on the side of his house and brought her over to our sand pile—an easier substrate to use than the stones on his property.


We had anxiously awaited our first terrapin since the first and previous year our first 3 nests had already been laid! Those 2022 terrapins had laid their eggs on June 7th—and 2 more nests on June 9th.


For Nest #2, laid the very next day, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #2: Jane



Our nest #2 terrapin laid her eggs on June 11th at 1:55 p.m., the day after nest #1. She's called “Jane” because she was found by our friend Jane staying at a nearby rental. The terrapin was laying in the rental’s tiny driveway, exposing the nest to unsuspecting future tenants.


Jane finished laying her eggs, looking happy and relieved to be heading back down our turtle ramp...watch for her head to resurface twice!


For Nest #3, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #3: Lucky



Nest #3 was laid the very next day on June 12th: we were on a roll! This shot was taken at night when we discovered this terrapin crossing Stone Harbor Blvd. on the way home from visiting friends. The terrapins are hard enough to see during the day, much less at night: so we named her “Lucky.”


Terrapins can lay their nests at any time of day or night, so please try and keep your eyes peeled for terrapins crossing the roads at night, too. Nest #3 was laid at 9:45 p.m.!


To watch a video of terrapin #4 laying her eggs, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Watch Terrapin Nest #4: “Bogin” is Laying Eggs!



Watch very carefully and you can see terrapin #4 laying 4 eggs on June 16th at 4:45 p.m. Watch her tail when she pulls her head in!


We named this terrapin after our other neighbors, since we found this terrapin attempting to lay eggs on their property. We moved any turtles we found nesting there to our sand pile next door since we knew their property was slated for demolition and therefore any eggs laid there would be destroyed.


For Nest #5, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #5: Bogin Two



Nest #5 was laid 2 days later on June 18th at 12:10 p.m.—5 minutes earlier than Nest #1. We named this one “Bogin Two” for the same reason listed above for “Bogin.” We saw many nesting hole attempts next door, meaning many turtles attempted to lay eggs there and many could have that we never saw.


In the previous year, 7 nests had already been laid by June 15th (we couldn’t help but compare our first year with this one).


Our sand pile was starting to fill up! Nest #5 is in the background.


For Nest #6, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #6: Little Ramp Girl



You can hear how excited I was that we were able to capture this little girl come right up our turtle ramp and onto our property: just like maybe she’d done it before—thus her name. We filmed her on June 20th and she finished laying her eggs by 1:16 p.m. She chose the highest part of our sand pile to lay her eggs…what a smart cookie!


People originally scoffed at the idea of our installing and using a turtle ramp over our bulkhead, but we’ve seen turtles use it over the years, and here’s (more) proof (we have other video’s too, including a past blog on June 27, 2020--of possibly even the same turtle)! The beauty is that turtles might choose to use our bulkhead to access our property to lay their eggs versus using the road and therefore bypassing the great chances of being killed crossing the road to get to our property!


Nest #7 (“Grass Digger”) eventually turned out to be a false alarm. It looked like a turtle had laid eggs there so we covered the site, but we didn’t actually see a turtle laying eggs there, and the supposed nest site never resulted in any eggs later.


So, for Nest #8, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nest #8: Bogin Three



On June 23rd, this lovely terrapin laid nest #8 on our sand pile! We came up with her name for the same reasons listed above.


By now we were even with the number of nests that had been laid by this time last year.


The next 2 nests were laid on the same day.


For more about them, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nests #9 and #10: Lynn & Buckley



Nest #9 on June 25th at 1:40 p.m. was named for our neighbor Lynn, who brought her to our sand pile. We were not home then but saw her finish laying later and prepared to cover her nest (see white box in video).


Nest #10, the same day at 4:06 p.m., was named “Buckley” after our nearby neighbor (whose maiden name is our last name)! She stopped in front of our house and saved her!


This shows our yard with nests we had covered so far, and Buckley laying Nest #10--shot from our 2nd floor deck.


For Nests #11 & #12, also laid on the same day but 2 days later, SCROLL DOWN…



April 2, 2024



Terrapin Nests #11 and #12:
Maryland and Front Window



Nest #11 was laid on June 27th at 3:20 p.m. Charlie named her “Maryland” after finding this terrapin nearby at a neighbor’s who has Maryland license plates.


On the same day at 4:05 p.m., we looked out our front window and watched a kind-hearted person stop and help a terrapin across the road in front of our house. Thus her name, and here she is looking glad to have finished laying Nest #12.


Thanks for reading about last year’s first half batch of terrapins! By this time the previous year in 2022, we only had 7 nests, so we were excited to already have 12 nests last year. Stay tuned for a blog about the second nesting half of our 2023 terrapin nesting season.





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