Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

TUESDAY NIGHT: Nest #27 Inventory Live- 3 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Unhatched- 55 Hatched Egg Shells- 86 A few pieces One sweet hatchling had a deformed right rear flipper.  He/she had a lot of spunk and made it to the water without any problems!  Future Multi-Pit?? Nest #34 Inventory Live- 1 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Read More

No new nests or crawls. I neglected to report that Nest #30 had 6 emerge Sunday night and there were more tracks in the runway Monday morning. Monday Night/Tuesday Morning Nest #33 had a nice indention and many hatchling tracks in the runway. Nest #34 had 1 more hatchling track in the runway. Nests #27, Read More

Unfortunately, today was a day (or last night was a night) for crab activity. No new nests or false crawls. SUNDAY NIGHT: Nest #25 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 2 Pipped- 1 Unhatched- 6 Hatched Egg Shells- 109 Pieces- Handful Nest #26 Inventory Live- 4 Dead- 1 Pipped- 7 Unhatched- 1 Hatched Egg Shells- 103 Pieces- Read More

No new crawls this morning. Saturday  Night Nests #28 and #35 all had first emergences. Nest #27 had 2 more emerge. Sunday Morning Nest # 27 had several more hatchling tracks. Nest #31 had a first emergence with several hatchling tracks. Nest #35 had two more hatchlings in the runway when Morning Patrol arrived.  Kathleen fought Read More

Happy Saturday!  Lots to report today!!   No new crawls, but we found a “Wild Nest” thanks for Susan’s Eagle Eyes at the Public Parking area.  It was originally marked as a false crawl on June 5th.  A dead hatchling was reported near there yesterday (150 yards west), but no other hatchling tracks were found there.  Read More

Again, no new nests or false crawls this morning.  Is this the end of laying?  We shall  see! Nest #29 Hatched with 85 late last night.  Our loyal supporters, the Kos Family, went back out after midnight and were able to save 1 more hatchling from a crab attack!   Nests #22 and #26 had more Read More

No new nests or false crawls.  Nest #22 had several more hatchlings last night. Nest #25 hatched with a perfect boil of a 100-102 hatchlings! OKI excavated their Leatherback nest this morning.  They had a crowd of over 200. Sadly, none of the eggs hatched.  Laid to early in season?  Not fertilized?  Young mama,?  We Read More

We had 1 false crawl today.  They almost missed it because she came in and out right over a mid-beach escarpment!  No new nests. Nests #12 and #22 had a couple more hatchlings emerge. Nest #16 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Pipped- 0 Unhatched Eggs- 14 Hatched Egg Shells- 94 Nest #19 Inventory Live- 1 Read More

LOTS of action to report today!!! Nest #15 Inventory Live- 0 Dead- 0 Unhatched- 22 Hatched Egg Shells- 92 Shredded Pieces- LOTS This was a relocated nest of 152 Eggs, so those shreds were from about 38 eggs. While this was happening, Nest #89 (the 16 relocated possibly viable eggs from the Wild nest at Southport) Read More

We have added the following to our Forms and Documents page: Recent events have prompted us to make the following statements. If you see a perimeter (stakes/rope) set up by CBTW volunteers on the beach, that perimeter must be respected during all nest activities, hatchings, or excavations. There should not be any persons or dogs Read More