Category: New Nests

Come on sea turtles where are you, everyone do the turtle dance Nest #14 is a Loggerhead and it is in Santa Rosa Beach in back of the Santa Rosa Beach Club near nest #2.   UPDATE: Nest #14 Dune Allan 102 escaped nest 2 alive and released 3 dead embryos 107 total eggs 97%…

I GOT A CALL ABOUT 12.15 LAST NIGHT FROM FWC ABOUT THIS TURTLE ON THE BEACH, IT LOOKS AS IF SHE HAD WAY TO MUCH COMPANY. PEOPLE TRACKS ALL AROUND HER, WE CAN’T TELL IF SHE NESTED OR NOT. DARN PEOPLE. HOW CAN WE GET FOLKS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE BEACHES AT NIGHT ARE FOR…

NEST #12 IS A LOGGERHEAD AND IS IN SEASIDE, THEIR SECOND, AT ODESSA ST. UPDATE: nest #12 hatched in 65 days 104 escaped and went to the water 11 were found alive in nest and released 1 had no obvious embryo development total 116 eggs 99 % nest success

Nest #11 at Inlet Beach Public Walkover, odd tracks, and they could not find the eggs but marked it, I don’t think it is a nest, but Val and Jennifer do so we will see just whom is correct….Time will tell. Loggerhead   UPDATE: Nest #11 Was determined no eggs. False crawl. Washed out by…

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…