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loggerhead turtles

    WILDLIFE

    Outer Cape Gets Season’s First Wave of Strandings

    They’re mostly young turtles, but one loggerhead weighed in at 350 pounds

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    Sea turtle technician Andrea Spence with a 350-pound loggerhead turtle found on Nov. 20 north of Great Hollow Beach in Truro. (Photo Nancy Bloom)

    Thanksgiving week is a busy time for the sea turtle team at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and some 200 volunteers who work to rescue cold-stunned turtles on the Outer Cape. But a 350-pound loggerhead turned some heads when it was found north of Great Hollow Beach in Truro on Nov. 20.

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