Wednesday, September 7

Tuesday Night: Cool and quiet night!

  • NEST #63 Inventory
    • Live: 2
    • Dead: 0
    • Pipped: 0
    • Unhatched: 4
    • Hatched Shells: 114
    • Pieces: just a few

Nest #74 (Day 57) had hatchlings emerge between 8:45-9:00.  They very quickly headed to the water!

Wednesday Morning;

WOW!  They waited for everyone to go home and BOOM, 3 more nests hatched! 

Nests #70 (Day 58) , #72 (Day 58) and #79 (Day 52) had hatchlings emerge overnight.  Unfortunately, #79’s hatchlings were very disoriented after they left the runway 😢

Nest #74 had 1 more hatchling overnight.

Whew!!

**This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (ES Permit 22ST03).