Month: June 2011

OH HAPPY DAY, I FOUND A NEST, ME MYSELF, WOW, When I could see it in the distance I could not believe it, It was so close to the water. She was small, only 28 inches wide the track, only 71 eggs and the bottom of the nest already very wet. See picture, the eggs…

This girl dug a body pit, and hole, then moved on down the beach, did another body pit and hole, then moved forward to finally nest! Loggerhead.   UPDATE: nest #9 100 escaped from nest 26 alive and released 8 dead in nest 2 dead pipped 2 live pipped 4 no obvious development 2 dead…

Nest #8 is a Loggerhead in SeaGrove….had to be moved UPDATE: Nest #8 116 escaped from the nest 12 alive in the nest and released 11 no obvious embryo 4 dead embryos 90% hatching success

SeaGrove Another Loggerhead, she came up oh so high, boy do we love her. UPDATE: nest #7 78 escaped 8 alive and released 5 dead in nest 1 no obvious development 93 % success

a loggerhead was found by Mike Opar near WhiteCLiffs, goo job Mike and good day for us! UPDATE: Nest #6 78 escaped from the nest 5 alaive in nest and released 3 dead in nest 4 dead pipped 1 no obvious embryo 91% hatching success

THIS IS SO EXCITING, LAST NIGHT ABOUT 11:30 I GOT A CALL FROM DEPUTY KEITH WHO WAS ON THE BEACH WITH NIGHT VISON CAMERA AND VISION AND SAW THIS WONDERFUL LOGGERHEAD NESTING AND CALLED ME, AS THERE WERE NOT MANY PEOPLE AROUND WE DID NOT GO AND LEFT HER ALONE TO DO HER THING.  KEITH…