By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 12, 2010 | update 7/12

nest 90 in zone 3
nest 91 in zone 4
nest 92 in zone 2

By: Diane | Date: Jul 11, 2010 | 88 and 89

Nest 88 in section 3, sounded like near the lighthouse. Someone else will have to blog the details because we found 89 on 4 shortly after and didn't hear much more. After some discussion with Buddy, decided to leave 89 in situ. Mama crawled well up onto a dune and tucked her nest into tall grass. Still no sign of babies.

By: MaryAnn Waldrop | Date: Jul 10, 2010 | Nest #87

Nest 87 located in Zone 3 (in-situ). There were also 4 false crawls- 2 in zone 3 and 2 in zone 5.
Nest 87 was finally located by Buddy. There were two crawls which were side-by-side. Examination of the tracks indicated that they were from two different turtles-one laid and the other did not.
Please make sure that you have drinking water with you on the beach. You never know how long you may be walking, probing, digging, etc. as we left the beach near 10 AM.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 9, 2010 | day off well almost

turtles took day off but one got message late crawled in zone one by the bird santuary . she must got text message cuz she turned around went back in the water. maybe tomm

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 8, 2010 | nest 85 & 86

nest 85 zone 5
nest 86 zone 3

By: Karen M | Date: Jul 8, 2010 | Nest 84 in Zone 2 - Stumpy??

Team B found nest 84 in zone 2 north of the cut. Mama made 2 attempts. The first set of tracks dead-ended right into a tree. Then just a few feet north was a good crawl and a nest, well situated near another tree so we did not move the nest. The tracks and nest were rather shallow - could this have been Stumpy?

By: Bonnie | Date: Jul 7, 2010 | Nest # 83 Raccoons almost destroyed

Zone 4 before first cabin had a crawl with typical body pit . Ken probed and probed before determining non-nesting crawl. At end of zone 4 just before 5 Nest #83 devastated by raccoon. My grandchildren (Charlotte and Jacob) helped me count the destroyed eggs before relocating only 14 remaining eggs to dunes north of Paterson cabin at South beach. Thanks to Buddy and Team A coming to our rescue with bucket and GPS.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 6, 2010 | update july 6

nest 82 today zone 5

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 5, 2010 | hooray for numbers eighty an eighty one

well we went in done it we beat last year. 2 more nests today zones 2 and 4. nest in 2 wouldve been sight to see her nest she went under a big fallen oak. volunteers had crawl on hands and knees to get to the body pit with the eggs in it. an the nest in 4 momma was being deceptive. she did a body pit with a open empty egg chamber. then crawled back over her crawl an nested.
zone 2 nest 80
zone 4 nest 81

By: Diane | Date: Jul 4, 2010 |

I should have looked at the stats. 79 was the second on 5

By: Diane | Date: Jul 4, 2010 | Street mama

Nest 79 was on section 5 (maybe the first on 5 this season?). Mama must have needed to put them somewhere fast because she found the tiniest section of dry sand left, tucked where the pavement on cabin road has crumbled. Sara, who pulled out the eggs, said the opening was very narrow and mama even had to arrange some of them on side shelves to have room. Had we left them in situ, it would have been the only nest with police tape surrounding the street side. The eggs were moved to section 4 just south of the bath house.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 3, 2010 | nest 2

nest 2 is showing no signs but with the wind the last two days its hard to see if it did hatch. nest 3 is over 45 days and nest 5 goes 45 mon nite

By: Carol Welch | Date: Jul 3, 2010 |

Hey, just wondering how nest #2 in zone 4 is looking. Any signs of movement? Thanks!

By: MaryAnn Waldrop | Date: Jul 3, 2010 | Nest # 77 and 78

A very beautiful morning on the beach with high winds and waves. We had one nest in Zone 6 and a nest in Zone 3. The Zone 6 nest, in situ, also had a lot of racoon tracks aong with a dead copperhead.
Because of the very high winds, the tracks in Zone 3 looked as if they had been their a few days; however, they were fresh. Sad to say, a fox and a racoon feasted on all of the eggs - approximately 88 eggs lost.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 2, 2010 | zone 3 hot zone

nest 74 75 76 all in zone 3 today

By: Reed and Anne | Date: Jul 2, 2010 |

so amazed to read that we have reached 70 + nests. Last year Reed and I were very fortunate to assist with # 51 exactly a year ago. We will be making our way to Hunting Island this week-end ! Keep up the good work !
You are all doing an awesome job ! We appreciate all of you !

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 1, 2010 | update

dna tells the tale lolita
nests today
71 zone 1 - (finally)
72 zone 4
73 zone 4

By: Lolita | Date: Jul 1, 2010 | busy mom

hey Buddy, how did you know Mama #11 is the same one on HH? Does that mean she laid two nests in one season?

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jun 30, 2010 | more turtle CSI news

turtle that laid Hunting Island nest 11 on May 30 laid her first nest of the season on north end of Hilton Head it was HH nest 2

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jun 30, 2010 | wednesday gets wacky again

nests today
nest 67 zone 4
nest 68 zone 6
nest 69 zone 4
nest 70 zone 3
I know 70 nests only 10 away from lasts year total. who wooda thunk it. case anyone wonderin we had nest 70 on july 16 of last year.

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