Posts by CWB Turtle Writers

Nest #15 had one hatchling around 9:00. First emergence and will wait the 5 day unless we have a boil tonight. Nest #17 had about 4 hatchlings with people watching but boiled during the night. Inventory will be Sunday. Nest #14 had two more hatchlings emerge at 10:30 and 12:00. Green was delivered to nests Read More

No new activity Nest #11 had two hatchling tracks, and Nest #15 and #17 both have depressions. Green was delivered to #17, #18 and #19.  We are short on tools but should have more after tonight’s inventories. Nest #10 had 2 turtles emerge around 9:30 and 7 more at 11:00.  We will call it first emergence Read More

No new activity Nest #14 had one hatchling around 8:30 and no more tracks morning. Team #1 watched 2 more hatchlings to the water around 10:00. Nests 4, 5, 9 and 11 all had tracks this morning Nest #8 was inventoried last night.  126 shells, 6 unhatched eggs, 1 dead hatchling and 1 live hatchling. Inventory Read More

I really hope this is not the new normal. 2 new nests today. #52 – relocated 91 eggs to marker 55.1, 33″ crawl #53 – relocated 104 eggs to marker 55.9, 32″ crawl Nest #12 hatched around 9:00 with 68 hatchlings and lots of spectators.  Lots more tracks in the runway this morning and 1 Read More

WHOA!!!  What a morning! And night!  2 false crawls east of the Baptist steps before she laid Nest #51.  36″ crawl at marker 55.9. Nest #6 had 84 hatchlings emerge around 9:00 with a great group of spectators.  As they were wrapping things up at nest #6,…. Nest #9 had turtles on top.  They all moved over Read More

No new crawls today. Nest #3 had one more hatchling march through the sand.  We chased a crab out of the cage this morning. Nest #8 hatched during the night. There were 2 dead and 2 live hatchlings in the runway. Nest #11 was smooth on the ride by going out this morning but had a pretty big Read More

No new activity today. Well Thursday night, Team #3 sitting Nest #4 challenged Team #4 sitting Nest #3 to a race.  Both nest were laid on the same day, May 23rd, so last one to hatch buys the ice cream. All I can say is what flavor do you like Team #4? Nest #3 caved in around Read More

Nest #49 today is near marker 70.  She had a 35” crawl and we relocated 75 eggs. Nest #50 is right beside #49 at marker 70. We relocated 70 eggs from the river in southport from a 38″ crawl. Green was delivered to Nests #11 & #12.

3 false crawls east of the baptist steps today.  They just can’t make it up that escarpment.  Another false crawl east of the parking lot. Nest #48 is located near marker 68.  We relocated 119 eggs.  We forgot to measure the crawl. Nest #1 was inventoried last night.  27 live hatchlings, 32 unhatched, 2 pipped/dead Read More

One false crawl near marker 53. One hatchling emerged from nest #1 after the storm last evening, then we got a call about 10:30 that there were more but didn’t go out.   We saw some folks on the beach this morning that said they saw 1 hatchling emerge late too.  No telling how many Read More