Category: 2019 Season

Morning Patrol:

• Green delivered to nests 29 and 30.  We had a wild nest in front of the public parking area with lots and lots of hatchling tracks but did not locate the nest.
• Fox invasion in most nests between Oak Island pier and villas.  Nest 18 had footprints.  Nest 63 and 47 were dug into slightly but didn’t look like disturbance. Nest 37 had 6 egg shells on the surface and nests 7 and 16 had hatchling prints in the green.  1 hatchling almost to the water at nest 16.
• Tide came into the green at nest 22 but did not reach the nest
• Nest 19 had lots of tracks
• Nest 13 had a crab hole
• Nest 20 had more tracks
• Nest 23 had a crevice

Last night:

• Nest #19 had a hole cave in @ 8:30 and @10:30 116 hatchlings made their way to the sea
• Inventories:
• Nest #10- 121 shells, 54 unhatched, 9 barely pipped and 10 live hatchlings
• Nest #11- 99 shells, 5 unhatched, 6 pipped, 6 live hatchlings and 4 dead

Morning patrol:

No new nests or crawls

Nest 10 and 19 had a couple of hatchlings emerge during the night. 

Green has been delivered up to nest 26.  Several have crevices or cracks so please check your nests and if you need help just let someone know. We probably need to start greening on day 50 now.

Last night:

2 hatchlings emerged from nest #10 about 8:00

Inventory nest #9: 94 shells, 11 unhatched and 4 live

Inventory nest #12: 98 shells, 13 unhatched, 8 pipped , 2 dead and 22 live

One false crawl this morning. It is highly likely that it was a green turtle.  She dug 2 different body pits with holes but no eggs were found. Looks like she did a lot of work to not lay but it is typical behavior for a green. We marked it as a nesting site. 
Nest #10 had 1 hatchling track, #12 and #14 had several tracks. nest #20 has an indentation. 

Inventory results:

Nest #8:  112 shells, 29 unhatched and 1 live. Team 7 wanted to be sure to thank all the volunteers from the other teams that jumped in to lend a hand. Teamwork!

No new crawls or nests.

More hatchlings overnight at nests #9, #10, #11 and #14.

Nest #11 had 1 dead hatchling in the runway and a jogger reported watching 2 more get to the water.

Green was delivered to nests up to #21

Last night:

Nest #14 had a full boil around 10:22 with 97 hatchlings

Inventory results:

Nest #5: 145 shells, 4 unhatched, 3 pipped, 5 dead and 1 live

Nest #6: 82 shells, 10 unhatched

Nothing new this morning but WOW what a night!

Last night:

Nest #9: 75 hatchlings around 10:00, 1 more at 11:58 and several more during the night.  57 days

Nest #10:  37 hatchlings decided to emerge @7:30, 17 more a few at a time during the evening. More during the night.  55 days

Nest #11: 34 emerged @ 9:18.  55 days

Nest #12: 52 @12:02, lots more during the night. 54 days

Nest #14: hatched during the night with lots of tracks.  3 in the runway this morning- 2 made it to the water, 1 being carried by ghost crab and didn’t survive.  53 days

No new nest or crawls this morning.

Last night

:Nest #8 boiled around 9:30 last night with 94 hatchlings.  A few more tracks in the runway this morning.

Nest #96 is west of the lighthouse with 119 eggs moved back away from the tide line.36” crawl

2 false crawls. 31” crawl and a 36” crawl both near Tom Hess

Last night activity:
Nest #5 hatched around 10:45 with 92 hatchlings (60 days)
Nest #6 boiled around 11:00 with 82 hatchlings (58 days)

Inventories:
Nest #2: 79 shells, 29 unhatched, 1 pipped (barely), 7 live hatchlings
Nest #4: 107 shells, 8 unhatched

Nest 95!  I’m guessing we are going to break 100 but don’t know if we will beat our 108 record. We have (in the past) has nest through July with a few in August. The year that we had 108 nests the last nest was laid on August 21

Nest 95 was laid under a cedar bush on the east end and 121 eggs were moved near the lifeguard stand. Crawl was 37”

One false crawl in the 400 block with a 32” crawl

Nothing new this morning. 

 Nest 3 Inventory Results: 92 shells 19 unhatched eggs1 pipped egg with dead hatchling

Nest 93 was laid west of the Point and relocated 121 eggs to east of the lifeguard stand.  38″ Crawl.  
Nest 94 was laid just east of Ocean Greens Lane in a safe location.  31″ Crawl
There was also a False Crawl west of the 300 Block Access with a 34″ Crawl.
Nest 2 had more hatchlings come out during the night!
Nest 4 boiled with 99 hatchlings!