The Gulf State Park Turtle Team had to work hard to get their 2nd nest of the season on May 29th. New team members Carmen Johnson and Steve Brooks found the tracks early, but mama turtle had done a good job of hiding the nest. Steve did credit co-team leader Neal Shults with a good…
Ft Morgan got nest number 5 today (May 28th). It was a heck of a day. Patrol this morning included Judy, Debbie H, Kelly and Diane P. It was Diane’s first nest. I think we have had a new volunteer on every nest. We are going to run out of newbies soon. Momma turtle left perfect…
OMG!! What an awesome start to a special day!!! Sheree and Boyd (subs for Tommie) found H-1 this morning in section B. As you can see from the pics, thank goodness the loungers did not stop her from nesting. She had a tough time leaving the nest and her tracks and nest had already been walked…
Gulf State Park had it’s first turtle nest of the 2015 season on Tuesday (May 19th). The tracks were found by veteran turtlers Jean Lyons and Pat Libby, assisted by newbie turtler Debi Jones. Debi was doing a daily stroll of the beach and came across the tracks at about 5:30 am. She waited for…
May 15th marks the day the first Sea Turtle nest of the season was found along the Alabama Gulf Coast. The Ft Morgan team starts out in the lead with a great nest find early in the morning (May 15th). Ft Morgan has a long stretch of beach and they patrol those long miles in…
The May 2015 issue of Baldwin EMC’s monthly magazine, “Alabama Living” contains a good article on our Share the Beach Volunteer Conservation Program. The writer spent some time at a nest with Debi Gholson (Ft Morgan Team Leader) and gained insight and first hand observation of the challenges our volunteers face, as well as the…
