Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

Thursday Night: The higher than normal tide, almost full moon and Hurricane Earl made for a ‘Perfect Storm’ event. Last night’s tide was higher than some of our King Tides. We had enormous help from the community last night reporting over washes and collecting washed away green! Thanks to all the Turtle Ambassadors!!! Unfortunately, tonight Read More

We have been accused of lying to visitors about a nest that had a crab hole on the morning of 9/6. An announcement was made by a non-permitted group that the nest had an indention. The visitors came to the nest that evening and were told the truth. The place that was indented was where Read More

Wednesday Night:  Rainy periods with lightning and a water spout over the ocean. Nest #76 had one more hatchling emerge while the team was sitting. Thursday Morning:  Cool, but biting flies were present! There was no evidence of hatchling emergence overnight.  There were rain drops of course. Nest #76 had a crab hole and one Read More

Tuesday Night: Cool and quiet night! NEST #63 Inventory Live: 2 Dead: 0 Pipped: 0 Unhatched: 4 Hatched Shells: 114 Pieces: just a few Nest #74 (Day 57) had hatchlings emerge between 8:45-9:00.  They very quickly headed to the water! Wednesday Morning; WOW!  They waited for everyone to go home and BOOM, 3 more nests hatched!  Nests Read More

Monday Night:  It was a pleasant night out there! Nest #64 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Unhatched Eggs- 6 Hatched Egg Shells- 77 Pieces- 3 handfuls Nest #67 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Unhatched Eggs- 3 Hatched Egg Shells- 90 Pieces- 1 handful Nest #71 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- Read More

Happy Labor Day!  Hope you are able to relax from your labors! Sunday Night: It was quiet with a nice light breeze and a beautiful moon later in the evening.  We had a lot of nice visitors at the nests east of the Lighthouse.  They didn’t get to see anything, but they were educated on Read More

Saturday Night: Nest #59 Inventory (We had a large and respectful crowd!) Live- 3 Dead-3 Pipped – 3 Unhatched- 5 Hatched Egg Shells-91 Nest #63 had one more very late arrival. A fisherman on the Ft. Caswell fishing pier found a hatchling in the river current.  He very smartly took it to the ocean side Read More

Friday Night (Buggy again!): Nests #71 and #63 both had hatchlings emerge with teams and visitors braving the bugs to cheer them on! Saturday Morning: Nests #59, #64, #69 & #73 had additional hatchling tracks in the runways this morning. Nest #69 Inventory Live- 16 Dead- 1 Pipped- 4 Unhatched- 3 Hatched Egg Shells- 120 Read More

Thursday Night: Nest #67 had hatchlings emerge at a very fast pace! 3 hatchlings were seen in the current at the Ft. Caswell Pier.  The beach was checked and no nest was found.  The tide was coming in, so they could have washed in from Bald Head or from Nests #67.  Tough break! Friday Morning: Read More

Wednesday Night: Nice night out there last night! Team 5 called about finding Nest #77 with a drop and small crater.  IT WAS ONLY ON DAY 47!!!  They helped out Team 7 by adding the green, just in case and keeping an eye on it for a while.  Whew!  Thanks Team 5! Team 9 assisted Read More