Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

Nests 17, 26, 21, 61 and 55 had crab holes.  No other activity

Crabs in 17, 25, 21 and 61.Nest 23 had some hatchlings emerge during the night, morning patrol got to watch 19 more and then visitors called a little later and we went back and watched about 16-20 more. 

Crab holes in 18, 28, 61 and 26.No activity.

No new crawls or nest.Nest 21 had 1 live hatchling and 2 dead ones in the runway this morning that were probably crab victims.Wanda set out to find nest 25 today and that she did.  They were barely under the surface and the top ones didn’t look so great but none were moved to see Read More

No false crawls, no new nests, no signs of hatchlings Crabs in 17, 47, 30, 61, 49, 57/23

We have NEST #64!  We moved 105 eggs closer to the dune.  Her crawl was 34”. AND….nest #20 had 43 hatchlings emerge between 9:42 and 11:04.  The first ones were very disoriented and took forever to get to the water.  But we had hatchlings at 50 days incubation. Green has been delivered up to nest Read More

No new crawls or nests but some good news. Nest 33 has been located.  Folks called late last night and told us there were eggs near nest 30 and we asked them to leave us a way to see them.  They had a nice circle with sticks all around.  Sure enough the eggs were right Read More

Nothing new today.  Crabs abound. I have recorded 15 nests as lost and we have 34 still incubating. I said currently lost because we don’t know the location close enough.  Our GPS method was not the best but we will have an accurate GPS locator before next season.  Some nests locations were pointed out by Read More

Another false crawl this morning on the east end.Crab holes at 18, 45, 47, 54, 61 and 63.Hopefully we will start seeing hatchlings this week.

2 false crawls this morning. Looked like a big turtle with a 42” crawl tried to lay but couldn’t make it on top of the dune. Both crawls were between the lighthouse and 401 walkway. No more nests located. The crabs are having a hayday in the nests that were invaded. Of course we covered them Read More