Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Run Tracks
The Turtle Journal team patrolled a SouthCoast Buzzards Bay nesting site early this morning in hope of finding signs that nesting for threatened diamondback terrapins had begun. Along the full 1/2 mile length of this barrier beach, Sue Wieber Nourse and Don Lewis discovered several fresh terrapin nesting tracks, indicating that the hot weather and pre-dawn high tide had enticed these turtles to kick off the nesting season on June 1st.