2 false crawls today just east of the lighthouse.
We have more beach for nests now. From Ocean Greens to the east is clear so come on turtles.
2 false crawls today just east of the lighthouse.
We have more beach for nests now. From Ocean Greens to the east is clear so come on turtles.
Nest #25 today. 39” crawl. Relocated 142 eggs to our favorite place.
No turtle activity for the last 2 days. There hasn’t been any dredging activity for the past 2 days either. Maybe they are missing the hum of the pipe.
I’ve had several people ask about the organizational meeting. We are going to wait until after the 4th of July, date still TBD. Our nest #1 is in on the very eastern tip and has limited access. The volunteers that also work at Ft Caswell will be assigned that nest and morning patrol will check it daily. Nest #1 was overwashed several times during the first week of incubation. Historically, our first nest normally takes longer so no telling how many days it will really take. The 52nd day for nest #2 is July 14th and we will be in action by that date.
The pipe has all been removed from the beach from the 200 block to Ocean Greens area. They will still be moving pipe around to get it off our beach near Ocean Greens. The area of our watch between the villas and the pier should be getting sand by mid-week and then our beach can be cleared to leave nest alone.
June 24
3 new nests and 6 false crawls.
Nest #21 (123 eggs) and #22 (95 eggs) were relocated to the east end near the Baptist walkover. Nest #23 (51 eggs) is more east towards the eastern point.
June 25
No activity
12 false crawls and no nest. Probably some sort of record and probably the same 3 or 4 turtles trying to find a place. Good news is they are picking up the pipe so it won’t be long now.
5 false crawls today but no nest. 3 were in the sand placement area and 2 on the eastern point.
WOW! 4 nests today and 1 false crawl
False crawl was west of the lighthouse, 39” and crossed the pipe.
3 false crawls today and nest #16.
Nest #16 was laid on the east end in the escarpment so was relocated to west of the Baptist walkover. 36” crawl and 120 eggs.
The false crawls were most interesting.
42” crawl near Mercer St. She was seen going back into the water and was huge.
Unmeasured crawl across the sand dike built at the waters edge by dredgers. She followed along to the pipe’s end and went back into the water.
36” crawl to the pipe and across the pipe on a sand bridge. She crawled about 50 ft then back across the same bridge back to the water.
Nest 15 was laid east of the Baptist walkover and had a 37” crawl. She crawled over nest #9 and laid her nest behind.