Saturday, August 21

Friday Night:

  • Nest #36 Inventory-WOW!
    • Live Hatchlings-0
    • Dead Hatchlings-0
    • Pipped Eggs-0
    • Unhatched Eggs-1, ONLY 1!
    • Hatched Egg Shells-80 (+ a handful of small pieces)
  • Nest #44 Inventory
    • Live Hatchlings-7 (These poor babies were covered with Ants!)
    • Dead Hatchlings-2
    • Pipped Eggs-0
    • Unhatched Eggs-35 (All liquid, undeveloped)
    • Hatched Egg Shells-100 (+ a handful of small pieces)
  • Nest #43 had 1 more hatchling emerge at 8:30 pm
  • Nest #48 had 2 hatchlings emerge at 8:48 pm
  • Nest #47 had a small depression
  • Nest #57 had a small depression
  • Lightning sent us in for the night!  Thank you for keeping yourselves safe!!

Saturday Morning:

  • Nest #45 boiled with a Turtle Ambassador watching as 110 hatchlings went straight for the water!
  • Nest #48 had a hatchling at the top tangled in a root.  The Morning Patrol freed it and watched it crawl to the water.
  • Nest #43 may have had another hatchling or so.
  • Nest #47 had 2 crab holes.

This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (ES Permit 21ST03)