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After several days with a crater on top, several nights of sitting until 11pm or after, much speculation about whether or not it hatched during the rain early Wednesday morning and finding flies/ants at the nest this morning, Nest #82 was excavated as soon as the team could arrive.  The nest HAD in fact hatched Read More

It was nice to see the stars again last night.  Many visitors were out hoping to see some turtle hatch, but they just weren’t ready to come out (while we all were there)!  The surge from the storm way off shore brought the tides up close to many nests hours after high tide.  Nest #85 Read More

Wednesday night had lots of beautiful distant lightning and cool breezes.  We all went in when the wind shifted, bugs came out and the rain got closer. Nest #83 Inventory:Hatched Egg Shells – 95Unhatched Eggs – 15Pipped – 0Live – 3 **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the Read More

We really are starting to slow down!  Last night was beautiful with the lightning show (the storm was in Florence and Lumberton), Starlink Satellite Train (22 lights) and the cool breeze.  We have 11 nests still incubating on Caswell Beach.  The hatchlings will probably take a few more days to incubate than the ones pre-Idalia.  The Read More

We had another beautiful evening for the inventories last night! There were no new nest hatchlings to report from the inventories. Nest #83 had no activity last night but a few more tracks in the runway this morning. Nest #73 Inventory:Hatched Egg Shells – 82Unhatched Eggs – 15Pipped – 0Live – 1Dead – 0 Nest #80 Read More

Nest #75 Inventory (last night – We had a sweet family from Kentucky observe!)Hatched Egg Shells – 80Unhatched Eggs – 1wPipped -1 Nest #77 Inventory (this morning)Hatched Egg Shells – 98Unhatched Eggs – 28 Nest #75 Nest #77 Morning Activity **This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Read More

It was a quiet and inactive night last night, except for the crabs.  Nest #37 had 4 egg shells pulled out.   Our Inventories in the last 24 hours have yielded very different results.  Weather, tides and the type of sand can all play a part, not to mention the genetics of the turtle parents.   Nest #9 Inventory:  Thursday Read More

Looks like our False Crawl from yesterday returned and laid today! She tricked us by evidently turning towards the east before she dug her chamber.  Yay, Barbara for finding the eggs! Nests #35 & #37 had some emergence overnight.  It is hard to know how many with the rain drops from the storm.  Nest #37 had Read More

We had another False Crawl on the East End this morning.  She crawled up an escarpment, up a dune slope and slid down to crawl back to the water.  Goodness, that was a lot of work! Some of the nests gained sand during the high winds yesterday.  There were no nest emergence. Nest #20 Inventory Read More