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This mama had a beautiful crawl!  The nest is located in a safe location on a low dune line.  The Morning Patrol was persistent in finding those eggs as the nest cavity was off to the side a bit! Nest #23Crawl Width:  102cm/40″ **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by Read More

Two more nests today laid within several yards of each other! Nest #21 was laid high in a dune. Crawl Width: 98cm/38.5″ Nest #22 had 122 eggs relocated from between two high tide lines up to the dune line. **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Read More

We have Quintuplets!  Today we have 5 new nests and 4 False Crawls!!!  Some of those False Crawls were similar widths to our nests, so Mama may have tried a few times to find the perfect place. Karen Clark (KC) from NCWRC rode along with the Morning Patrol and she was not disappointed!  How great Read More

We have Nest #15 – laid in a safe location! Crawl Width:  80.4cm/33″ Interesting occurrence:  The egg that was used for DNA was elongated and had 2 yolks.  The eggshell was very thin and broke inside the nest.  We will be asking our resources NCWRC about this in our next meeting! **This conservation work for Read More

UPDATE:We try to double check any of our false crawls that are not obivous “U-turns”. After rechecking, the highest crawl was actually a nest! We have Nest #14! We are so happy that Mama was finally able to lay that clutch! After laying she crawled all over the top of the nest making it harder Read More

 We are up to Lucky #13 for our nest counts! New morning patrol team member, Karen, located her first nest!  Nest #12 was laid in a safe location.   Nest #12:Crawl Width:  80.4 cm/33″ Nest #13 was also located in a safe location.  It will be highly visible to many visitors.  Mama was a small one! Read More

Good morning! We had 1 obvious False Crawl this morning.  Mama was on the small side.  Crawl Width:  85 cm/ 33.5″. Nest #11 was laid way up to the bottom of a dune, very safe area.Crawl width:  93 cm//37″ Looks like we are moving steadily along! Officer Mike left us a stuffed turtle Key Chain for the Read More

WOW!  We were blessed today with a daytime nester!  We got the call a little before 4:00 that a Mama turtle had come ashore.  When we got there she had already climbed over a dune and begun digging her egg chamber.  This process took over an hour!  Many beach goers got a once in a lifetime Read More

The rain cleared and we have 3 nests!  All were laid in safe locations! Nest #7 was in the same region as yesterday’s false crawl and very high in the dune. Nests #8 & #9 were next to each other, one house width apart! Maybe they are related? Nest #7: Crawl Width:  90.8 cm/38.5″Nest #8: Read More

Mama turtle crawled way up to the dunes, walking around a washed up log, but decided not to lay her eggs. Poor thing! All the nests have been safe from tidal overwash.  The river beach had more erosion, though. **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Read More