Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

Rather than a new post each day, this post will include the remaining activity for the season, listed from latest to earliest. **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (ES Permit 22ST03). Inventories for last four nests: #90 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- Read More

Saturday Night: No Bugs! Nest #78 Inventory (Appreciative and respectful small crowd) Live- 1 Dead- 0 Pipped- 7 Unhatched-16 Hatched Egg Shells- 100 Some of the unhatched eggs were fully developed, but perished like the pipped. It could have been from tidal ground water or air deprivation. Sunday Morning: No activity to report. **This conservation work Read More

Friday night: another beautiful evening! Nest #83 Inventory (WOW!) Live- 0 Dead- 2 Pipped- 0 Unhatched Eggs- 6 Hatched Egg Shells- 145 (You  read that right! And we all missed it!) Nest #87 Inventory (Heavily inundated with roots!) Live- o Dead- 1 Pipped- 0  Unhatched Eggs- 36 Hatched Egg Shells- 55 Pieces- Handful Saturday Morning: Read More

Wednesday Night:  Can you say, BUGGY? Nest #81 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 3 Pipped- 2 Unhatched- 5 Hatched Egg Shells- 105 Thursday Morning:  Cool temps and calm seas! No hatchlings emerged overnight. Nest #83 had a crab hole. **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission Read More

Tuesday Night:  It was another gorgeous night to sit! WOO HOO, Nest #78 hatched (at Day 60) last night!! Wednesday Morning: Lots of Stragglers overnight! Nest #78 – +1 Nest #84 – +4 or 5 Nest #85 – +2 Nest $87 – +1 or 2 Nest #88 – +1 Nest #83 had a crab hole. There are only 5 more Read More

Monday Night: Nest #75 Inventory (looked like water inundation, rain, early in development) Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- 1 Unhatched- 65 (no development) Hatched Egg Shells- 24 Nest #84 had another hatchling track in the runway when the team arrived. Nest #80 had a good emergence.  Some nice visitors had just left, so Marilyn ran Read More

Sunday Night: Pleasant night with a great breeze and a beautiful moon! No action to report while teams were out. Monday Morning: Nest #81 had a few more hatchlings tracks in the runway. Nest #84 had a crab induced hatchling in the runway.  The crab was chased away and the hatchling made it to the Read More

Saturday Night:  Beautiful, but buggy. Nest #81 had some hatchlings emerge just before 9:00 with a nice group of visitors who were smitten! They then counted down and waited for the Space-X Rocket.  It was a cool sight to see!  It looked like the Rocket Booster fell right on top of Bald Head, but we Read More

Friday Night: Thanks for hanging out at the nests during the incoming high tide!  The visitors voiced many thanks for all we were doing! Nest #72 Inventory (Excavated 1 day early due to predicted rains) Live- 4 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Unhatched- 40 Hatched Egg Shells- 90 Nest #74 Inventory  (Excavated 1 day early due to Read More