Year: 2012

Found by Valeria in front of Blue 9 condos. 108 eggs. Loggerhead. UPDATE: Nest #81 was washed away in Isaac

Yes, you see correctly we now have nest #80, my, my, when they were marking it this morning, they talked to the State Park Ranger, and he said, Top Sail has 12 nest, Grayton 6 and we have marked 2 on Deer Lake so gang that makes 100 nests in Walton County. Wow, and nesting…

no picture if this one as the only way it was found was that TDC David was driving the water line and saw a part of a track down by the water, went up and found a disturbed area and call me. So not a bit to tracks to take a picture of. Lucky us,…

Dawn had two young lardies who are working the summer with her on the walk this morning and they found nest #78 a Loggerhead just west of Tang O Mar in Miramar Beach, Way to go. 7-15-2012 UPDATE: Nest #78 hatched 9/16/2012 32 escaped from nest 50 were found alive in nest and released 1…

nest # 77 a loggerhead was found 7-14-2012 almost to Camp Helen way up into the Dunes, I tried to make it a Green but as you can see by the tracks it was a Loggerhead UPDATE: What a beautiful sunrise and a beautiful morning on the beach Nest #77 94 escaped 1 dead pipped…

A LOGGERHEAD, 7-14-2012 THE RETREAT…. UPDATE: Nest #76 65 escaped 2 alive and released 1 non hatched egg 68 total eggs 98% Success

Another Great story, Ann had done her walk and it was about 8, I got a call from Ernie of our TDC Beach Patrol. The Best Beach Patrol. he had a crawl and I could not make it fit any of our other nests so called Ann and she and Bobby went back to the…

LOOK AT THIS TRACK, THEY DUG FOREVER ALSO. SHE COVERED HER INCOMING TRACKS, BUT I SEE LITTLE THROWN SAND AND WHERE OH WHERE IS HER MOUND…74 AND STILL GOING…. UPDATE: Nest #74 95 escaped 1 pipped egg 11 non hatched eggs 107 total eggs 89% success

Nest #73 a loggerhead was found in Dune Allan by Lucky Katie, a first year person with 3 nests found, congrats Katie. UPDATE: Nest #73 94 escaped 5 alive and released 5 non hatched eggs 1 dead embryo 106 total eggs 94% success

Can you believe it, we had 7 nests this morning, we have never ever had 7 nests in one day, Gosh, Barb found this Loggerhead in front of SandDrift in the West end. Brenanna got to see her first tracks on the beach and help to find the eggs as the three of us dug…