By: Reed & Anne | Date: Aug 4, 2010 |

any news on the DNA of nest # 86 ? Buddy, how about the inventory we talked about ? Thanks

By: Diane | Date: Aug 4, 2010 | Nest 20 questions

So what happened with nest 20? Did the raccoons/foxes get through the cage? Had we removed the cage because we'd seen baby tracks and the critters got in later?

By: Gretchen | Date: Aug 4, 2010 |

No crawls or nests today, but two inventories. Nest #28 in Zone 3 yielded 62 hatchlings & 53 unhatched.
Nest #20 in Zone 4 was destroyed by raccoons and fox, so no count could be taken.
Nest #34 in Zone 3 hatched last night; tracks were seen and 3 dead babies were at the high tide mark.

By: Abby | Date: Aug 3, 2010 |

What was the results of the autopsy of the green turtle found in Zone 5?

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Aug 2, 2010 | not singing yet

two more non nesting emergence(false crawl) zone 4 and zone 3 .

By: Carol Welch | Date: Aug 2, 2010 |

Just a note of interest. According to Sunday's team notes, they found #19 on 6/6 and noted that the nest appeared to be "Stumpy's" nest. They were also fortunate enough to inventory that same nest on 8/1, and found a hatchling with underdeveloped or deformed flippers. Maybe he or she will make it just like their Mama Stumpy did! This is interesting stuff, huh?

By: Diane | Date: Aug 2, 2010 | Double Duty

Found out from Karen M this a.m. that Thursday's team started to inventory nest 19 but found 8 live babies, so they removed some clearly non-viable eggs and 2 bodies and re-covered the nest for us to inventory Sunday. Not a 100 percent hatch rate after all.

By: Diane | Date: Aug 1, 2010 | Good news/bad news

We inventoried nest 19 this morning. Didn't find a single unhatched egg! 2 dead babies and 1 barely live little hatchling with a couple of flippers that didn't want to work. Tried putting it in soft sand, hard sand and tide. The flippers worked better in the water, so Cyndi took it beyond the breakers and we'll keep our fingers crossed. Boy scouts gave us a round of applause for our efforts.

Nest 110 today, but all the eggs were lost to raccoons.

By: MaryAnn | Date: Jul 31, 2010 |

This morning there was a false crawl in zone 5; also, nest 24 hatched. We were able to witness 10 of those babies coming out of the nest and slowly make their way to the water. It was a very long crawl for them, but they made it as some of the team deprived the birds of a meal.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 30, 2010 | fri July 30

nest 109 in zone 3

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 29, 2010 | fat turtle still aint singing

5 ya 5 false (non nesting emergences) today.
2 in zone 5
1 zone 1
2 zone 4

By: Bonnie | Date: Jul 28, 2010 | Stormy Wednesday

Storm passed just before morning patrol. Nice breeze and comfortable temp No new nests this morning.
Nest#17 in zone 3 hatched. Saturday's team to inventory #17 & Nest#3.
All teams stay alert to fox activity in and around South Beach.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 26, 2010 | nature handled it 2

still have not located the wild nest in zone 1/2. ghost crab hole just had ghost crab ( big, now pissed off) and his turkey neck dinner. monday zone 1/2 team searched but found no evidence of tracks or nest. babys may have come from nest 25 . its been very windy an tracks may have been erased. but Roberta's point was right on . I found a wild nest in 6 on sun morning. babies went through whole proccess without any human influence .

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 26, 2010 | aint over till fat turtle sings

nest 108 today also nest 6 (FINALLY) and nest 19 hatched

By: Deana Sherline | Date: Jul 26, 2010 |

Would like to become a Friend of Hunting Island. What do I need to do?

By: Laurel, John, Cyndi & Skyler | Date: Jul 25, 2010 | Nest #106

Just when we thought it was nest monitoring, hatching, & inventory time, a momma in these crossover weeks showed us!
As Karen & her crew were doing inventories of #9 & #11 in Zone 4 (& Buddy down in 6 with #14), a false crawl in Zone 3 was followed further up the beach by a real nest, #106, left in situ. We even had a cage to use that kept the critters out of #11 ealier.
They might keep laying into the 1st week of August...

By: Roberta | Date: Jul 25, 2010 | Nature handled it!

This morning we found a wild nest in zone #1. Campers on the beach told us they saw a baby turtle make its way to the water this morning. So we got pretty excited. Then we saw a group of people at the edge of the water and just managed to see from a distance a second hatchling enter the water. After much searching, and Gerry Mueller's keen eyes, we found what looked like a ghost crab hole. But it had hatchling tracks to the water, so we knew it had to be the nest. It was pretty humbling to know that even though we humans missed their nest, those babies managed to survive and make it to the water. We don't know if the rest of the babies went out last night, or if they are still down there, waiting for tonight.

By: Cyndi | Date: Jul 24, 2010 | Saturday, second message

No new nests or crawls in Zone 4 (or 1,2,5,6) either. But Nest # 18 hatched, so Tuesday will have inventories to do.
Wasn't quite so hot with an early offshore breeze.

By: MaryAnn | Date: Jul 24, 2010 |

The turtle teams and the area surfers were at the park bright and early this morning.
Nest #19 has pipped and Nest #7 hatched last night.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 23, 2010 | mommas not done yet

nest 105 zone 3 today non nesting crawl in 4 we tried to get 106 but its now up to sat or sun. nest 13 also hatched

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