Category: New Nests

My non beach day started early with two false crawls at 4 Mile Village , this is a green she came up as far as she could and then went back.  Notice the track the ridge on each side of the middle, no swaying motion as she pulls both flippers at one time and the…

Found this morning by Bobby, he also found Deer Lake false crawl #1 and Anne found our false crawl #19..  Ugh

Nest #27 Seagrove again, a good learning time for the contractors on the beach…    

Nest #25 was found by Alan Newsome, Alan found 3 nests today, yes, three, we were very busty, I had to walk and go to Seagrove.  All nests were in seagove and we found the eggs.  Hurrah….

Was found this morning by Kate Johnson.  What a morning.

I got a call from a family at Seaside last night about baby sea turtles and after another call and talking to Joe, this family saw the adult sea turtle come up on the beach to lay eggs, so they wanted to see her good so they and other shone their bright flash lights on…

Sandestin of course.  Found this morning, a small Loggerhead with a small crawl, we have seen her before.  She did not come far out of the water to nest.  Note the tracks, and they say Loggerhead, alternating, small no tail drag, no front flippers, can see all of the back flippers. Had to really work…

Found by Bobby Stuart the nest King east of Deer Lake State Park, Loggerhead. We also now have 14 false crawls

Not how after she nested she could not find the water because of the lights and went up and down and all over.

Bobby found a loggerhead nest on Deer Lake State Park this morning, her and Joe marked it. A false crawl #13 was found by Oyster Lake, a green this is the second night she has tried to nest, let’s hope she does tonight.