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

By: mommakaren | Date: Jul 23, 2010 |

Hi guys, Please remember to bring water with you and take it to the beach with you. It is HOT OUT THERE.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 22, 2010 | 7/22

nests 9 11 zone 2 hatched
nest 14 zone 6 hatched
nest 2 an nest 10 both had 64% hatch rate

By: Karen M | Date: Jul 22, 2010 | More Hatchings

No crawls but we had several hatchings in zone 4 today -
nests 9, 11, and 15. Sad note - nest 15 only had 2 tracks out and one ended in a dead baby on the beach. Also possible hatchings for nests 12 and 18. Sunday's inventory team will be busy! An inventory and training was done in zone 4 but I don't have all the numbers so hopefully someone else will blog it.

By: Bonnie | Date: Jul 21, 2010 | Inventory of Nest # 5

No nesting activity for Wacky Wednesday. Nest #5 inventoried in Zone 1 by Team D. How thrilling and rewarding to find and release 12 little hatchlings safely to the ocean. Thanks to Don Gregory for assisting with inventory and all for seeing these little babies safely to the ocean. With so many nests, keep a sharp eye volunteers for signs of hatching as it could become hot and heavy. Seeing these babies make it to the ocean makes morning patrol all worthwhile. Hope you are able to see the photos.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 20, 2010 | return of mommas

a crawl in zone 4 today thatssss alll folks

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 19, 2010 |

nests 2 an 10 hatched
no other activity

By: Jim Davidson | Date: Jul 19, 2010 | Helping on HI

I am staying on Fripp for six weeks and would like to help with this program. I do understand that this would be in a completely observatory role. However, I did this several years ago while visiting and absolutely loved it.

I tried using the email feature with this site, but was unsuccessful. If someone could contact me, I would greatly appreciate more information.

Thank you for your assistance.

Jim Davidson
jimdavidson1961@yahoo.com

By: Diane | Date: Jul 18, 2010 | Baby Tracks Today

I believe this is the first Sunday without at least one nest since the first week. I guess the girls had to take a break after all the activity this past week. We had reports, however, of the first baby tracks at two nests! I know one of the nests was #5 but I did not hear the number on the other one. Hooray!

By: MaryAnn Waldrop | Date: Jul 17, 2010 | Add another nest!

Team Saturday had a nest, #104, in zone 3. Also, there was a false crawl in zone 4.

By: TurtleBuddy | Date: Jul 16, 2010 | update

nest 102 zone 5
nest 103 zone 1

By: mommakaren@islc.net | Date: Jul 16, 2010 |

In checking the records the largest number of nest for HI was 130 in 1992.

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