Posts by CWBTW Patrol

Caswell Beach may have had some bad luck with overwashed nests from Tropical Storm Debby, but it isn’t all bad news for Caswell Beach Turtles! Mother Nature always finds a way to surprise us and brings brightness after the storm. #1:  Shout with glee, we have nest #63!!!!  Mama had a beautiful crawl and laid in Read More

On Monday the Caswell Beach Turtle Watch Morning Patrol found that Nest #11 had hatched big overnight with lots of hatchling tracks in the runway. Nest #60 was laid in the high tide line and 110 eggs were relocated to higher ground. We represented the area sea turtle programs at Monday’s Oak Island Farmers and Artisans’ Read More

It’s been a few days since Caswell Beach had a new Sea Turtle nest, but that changed today as we welcomed Nest #58 high on a grassy dune knoll! We are thankful for that location which is safe from the rising tides on our beach! Nests #6 & #8 were excavated and inventoried last night Read More

No new sea turtle nests or crawls for Caswell Beach today! As far as existing sea turtle nests, unfortunately 6 nests were overwashed again overnight, and the unusually high tides have now affected an additonal nest. Of all of our nests, #7, which was due to hatch earlier this week, has experienced the worst inundation Read More

After a partial emergence of 58 Kemp’s Ridley hatchlings at Caswell Beach’s Sea Turtle Nest #9 on Wednesday morning, a nice crowd of visitors were able to observe 4 more emerge this morning. The 4 were spread out over 3 hours time! Kemp’s Ridley are the most endangered of our sea turtle species, are commonly Read More

After no activity yesterday, Caswell Beach has 2 interesting sea turtle nests today! Nest #45 was laid at the tide line on the river beach, not far from the Navigation Tower.  Mama tried very hard to climb higher, but couldn’t.  100 eggs were relocated to a safer location.  Nest #46 was laid over a low Read More

Caswell Beach Turtle Watch was called out to the beach last night for a nesting mama.  Shout out and thanks to the West Virginia family for calling us and keeping things quiet and dark until we arrived.  They had quite the vacation memory! We were able to check the Loggerhead mama for Flipper Tags and Read More

Yahoo! We have 42! Today we are sharing our latest sea turtle nest updates, and some information about our new nest management practices. Nest #41 was laid yesterday and Nest #42 was laid today, both in safe locations. Next week, Caswell Beach Turtle Watch will set up the first runways for several sea turtle nests. Read More

Happy Independence Day! The week of Independence Day is generally one of our busier weeks for Sea Turtle activity. Caswell Beach had 4 new sea turtle nests in the last 2 days! Wednesday we had a 3-Nest Hat Trick and TODAY we had 1 very unusual nest! Nests #37, #38 and #39 were all laid Read More