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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

We had another False Crawl today.  We hope she will come back. Our Mama’s are definitely nesting later this season! Interesting fact:  In 2020 we had a nest on August 22, 2020.  It hatched on October 29th with 92% successfully hatched!  We can’t wait to see how this season ends! Nest #20 had 4-5 more Read More

Just when you think you’re through, we have Nest #92!  What a surprise!Nest #92 was laid high and dry in a safe location. Crawl WIdth:  78cm/31″ Nest #34 had some turtles emerge last night between 8:30 – 11:30 with Team 4 present.  They were so very happy to see hatchlings! We had 2 inventories last Read More

Saturday Inventories:No new crawls to report.  Laying may have ended for the season. Today was very busy attending to 6! inventories, 2 morning and 4 evening.  The evening had large crowds.  SPECIAL THANKS to the teams who came and assisted at the evening inventories!  Saturday/Sunday Hattches:Last night we had 3 nests with some emergence! Nest #19 had 4 Read More

Friday Night:We learned from the DNA results of Nest #8 Mama that she typically lays small clutches of eggs.  This nest had a total of 50. Nest #8 InventoryHatched Eggs – 44Unhatched Egg – 6 with an additional 2 small spacer eggsPipped – 0Live – 0Dead – 0 Nest #20 had 104 hatchlings boil out Read More

Thursday Night: Nest #19 hatched last night with Team 4 presents, Team 3 joining in to help and many beach visitors!  The hatchling scout came out first and went straight to the water.  The other 52 followed after and hour of waiting.  Several of those were very disoriented.   We were called at 10:10 about Nest Read More