August 1: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Leader) Shockwaves this morning (Monday, Aug 1st) when Cathy checked on H-4 and found baby turtle tracks all heading north once they got past the tarp. I was at the nest till about 11:00pm and was quiet. Karen actually offered to come back and I did not think…
From July 29th: Lisa Graham (OB Team Leader) H-1 excavation was great! We found 20 live hatchlings. 8 infertile, 2 dead, 1 dead pipped. However, we had fish feeding everywhere- no way we were sending babies out into the feeding frenzy. We moved on to H-4 for tarping. Great teamwork!! Released our hatchlings afterwards with…
July 29th: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) H-25 this morning found by Renee in section E. LOF crew with turtle spotter Cathy saw the crawl in the dark and staked it off just in case!! Good Job Cathy and Renee!!! Brandi, Renee and Cathy relocated 122 eggs abt 30′ north just at the MHTL.…
July 28: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) Michele G. Found H-24 yesterday (July 27th). Textbook all the way – did not have to relocate!!! That makes the 3rd nest this season we have not had to relocate – that tops the total number of non relocations over last 15 years!!! It is in section…
July 27: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) The pop-up storms and high winds yesterday stirred up H-1 and babies were discovered at the top at 3:45pm in the afternoon!! The first baby strutted to the water about 5:25pm. She posed for photo ops all the way!!! The crowd at 150+ were thrilled getting plenty…
July 23: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) Gosh can’t get behind on emails and data this turtle season!!! Yesterday (July 22) we had False Crawls 27 & 28. Pam reported FC 27 at the cottages of Romar, section D. Footprints everywhere so we feel certain she was run off beach. On the other hand,…
July 18: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) Well just when we thought another boring nest in OB, we have H-22!! The LOF crew/Donna Dick spotted Momma T. making her way back to the water this morning just before 5:00am. Lila reported the find at 5:50am. It was a very confusing crawl which included an…
July 13: From Lisa G (OB Team Lead) Donna, Jenny and soon to be volunteer Angi found H-21 in section A2. Momma T. Crawled in 19′, nested and did an about face over the nest area and went straight back to the gulf as you can see from the pic. The eggs were found by…
July 9: From Lisa G (OB Team Leader) H-20 ( that sounds so strange) was found this morning by Jane (subbing for Cathy) in section C. She was a late morning nester in that she was heading to the water about 5:30am this morning when Ben with Perdido Beach Services saw her!!! Ben was flagging…
July 9: Info from Mike Reynolds (Turtle Czar) As most of you have noticed there are a few nests out there. As of this morning, 143 nests A (Ft Morgan) = 55 B (Laguna Key) = 24 C (West Beach) = 6 E (East Beach) …
