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Category Archives: May 2016

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Saturday afternoon Kemp’s

Kemp’s nest in the Refuge (5/28/16):

Yesterday afternoon a visitor saw a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle nesting in the Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge.  He took photos and contacted the Share the Beach hotline so our volunteers could make and document the nest. Thank you Zac!

 

May 29, 2016Leave a commentFort Morgan, May 2016, Share the BeachBy admin

Friday finds – Gulf State Park, Ft Morgan & Dauphin Island

For Friday 5/28/16 – It looks like momma turtles were looking for seclusion today.  Dauphin Island had a false crawl near the west end of the island. While Dauphin Island had their false crawl, the Gulf State Park team got their first nest of the 2016 season.  Here’s the play by play from Team Leader…

May 28, 2016Leave a commentDauphin Island, Fort Morgan, Gulf State Park, May 2016, Share the BeachBy admin

A busy couple of days!

From Orange Beach on Tuesday (5/24): Laura found 2 false crawls this morning in E. She was so excited she could hardly talk!! Good job Laura!!! Crawl width was 36″. As you can see from the pics she made a quick in and out and then crawled about 141′ towards the dunes! Further than I have…

May 26, 2016Leave a commentDauphin Island, East Beach, Fort Morgan, May 2016, Orange BeachBy admin

Laguna Key gets their first

Tuesday morning the Laguna Key team found their first nest of the 2016 sea turtle season.  It was a loggerhead nest (most along the Alabama coast are) and hopefully a harbinger of good things to come for this nesting season.  Way to go Laguna Key! Congrats.

2016 B-1

May 19, 2016Leave a commentLaguna Key, May 2016, Share the BeachBy admin

Ft Morgan has first nest of the 2016 season

And It’s a Kemp’s Ridley! Hey everybody,  Just wanted to let you know what went on today (5/14/16)!! We had what we initially thought were 2 false crawls today. It looks like the first false crawl we had, “the 30-inch crawl” turned out to be a Kemp’s nest ! One of our Locals happened to…

May 15, 2016Leave a commentFort Morgan, May 2016, Share the BeachBy admin
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