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Sea Turtle action on Caswell Beach is keeping our teams busy this week while we work to keep the high tides at bay. Nest #10 had a partial boil last night before dark with 67 hatchlings.   Nest #8 had 1 more hatchling emerge last night.  A young person called our hotline at 1:00 am to Read More

Caswell Beach Turtle Watch has had a busy couple of days as we have begun to see emergence from multiple nests. Nest #1 boiled Friday evening with 89 hatchlings going straight to the water on Day 66. Nest #2 had a straggling hatchling emerge late morning-noonish yesterday.  A beach visitor called and made sure he safely Read More

The Caswell Beach Turtle Watch has not located any new sea turtle nests in the last 2 days, but we did have 2 nests inventoried!  As part of these inventories we’ve noted that the recent hard rains have made the sand in the nests damp and heavy which prevented many hatchlings from emerging independently.  Sadly, Read More

There has been a lot of sea turtle activity in the last 24 hours for the Caswell Beach Turtle Watch teams! Our sea turtle mamas are still hard at work, and yesterday we had Nests #51 and #52 laid overnight.  Morning Patrol observed nice clean crawls in safe locations for both nests. A few existing Read More

Sea Turtle activity is getting busy on Caswell Beach this week! The Caswell Beach Turtle Watch teams have been very active preparing our first nests with runways, locating new nests and checking numerous false crawls, and monitoring our first nest emergence. Along with Ocean Isle Beach, Caswell Beach has the first documented sea turtle nest Read More

Caswell Beach has had 2 False Crawls and 2 new Nests in the last few days. Nest #30 was laid near the dune line which will keep it safe and above the tide.    The next day we had a False Crawl where the determined sea turtle mama tried to crawl straight up a dune Read More

Caswell Beach, as with many other sea turtle nesting beaches, always has some amount of false crawls as our sea turtle mamas try to find a safe place to nest. But with the storms and erosion of recent years, it’s especially challenging to deal with the high dunes. This weekend, we had 2 false crawls Read More

Happy Summer! The NC Sea Turtle Project’s data has shown us that Sea Turtle Mamas returning to Caswell Beach can sometimes be SEA TURTLE SISTERS! We’ve had not only sisters but daughters and granddaughters return to this beach, sometimes mulitple years in a row. Some sea turtle sisters have even laid nests next to each Read More

Caswell Beach is slowly gaining new sea turtle nests day by day. We luckily received Nest #23 today so we are 1 for 1 this weekend. The sea turtle mama chose a nice high dune area to lay and tried her best to trick the patrol team, so it took some time to find her nest! Read More

Caswell Beach Turtle Watch had a quiet few days, but we are happy to have 3 more nests this morning! We greeted many beach walkers that were out early and who were able to observe our nest finding process! Nests #20 and #21 were laid in safe locations. We are grateful our sea turtle mamas Read More