Our man, Lance is on a roll finding H-7 this morning in section E!!! Got his call at 5:45 am reporting the Auburn Tigers did not stop Moma T!! She crawled her big 42″ self right on thru the tent and nested. It was an exciting morning as today is Rhonda’s birthday and she was there with her…
No turtles in OB this morning. BIG Thank YOU this morning to Mark and Ron for putting 5 more aluminum signs in the ground. HOT work!! 2 signs at Summer House, 1 at Bluewater, 1 at Hampton Inn, 1 at Perdido Beach Resort. More signs have been ordered by USF&W!!! We have lots of boardwalks to…
H6- Hooray! Nest #6 for OB was actually called in last night (Wednesday 7/8) about 11:00pm by Ashley and Josh, Alabama students from Tuscaloosa. They were sitting on the beach and witnessed what at first they thought was a dead body floating in. As it got closer, and with the help of very bright lights on the Four Seasons…
H-5 was found this morning (7/2) by Lance – Yippee!!! After 8 years of finding several false crawls (including FCH-2 this morning – 35″ crawl width) and being at nearly every nest find and hatching since – Lance finally found his first very own nest!!! Lance is always the first on the beach on his patrol day…
Jane found H-4 on Monday June 29th in section D. Moma T. came ashore and appeared to crawl parallel to water(crawl washed over) in front of loungers until she came to an opening and crawled between loungers ,10′ from swash line and nested. Super high traffic area so she must have nested late morning after everyone was off the beach.…
More pics of H-3. As you can see she was at water’s edge. Also, we had a little trouble this am. Here we have Paula Long, newbie after patrolling A-1 being hauled off the beach by our own Travis Long (no relation-we think). Actually, Paula fell this morning as she was patrolling with excitement to get…
OMG! What a night. I got a call from Orange Beach Police Dept at 10:12 tonight (6/17) that a turtle was reported on the beach trying to get up the 5′ escarpment near the jetties in section A-1. I arrived about 10:30 pm to find Moma Turtle nesting below the escarpment barely 2′ from the…
Whoo Hoo!! We are back in action in OB!! Visitors (Jeremy & Ally) were strolling the beach last night (June 15th) before heading back to Illinois today. At first they thought there was a dead body floating in (funny what a dark night on the beach does to your mind) but they then realized it was a BIG…
We had our first false crawl this morning (June 8th) in section D at Phoenix West of all places. Norm started patrol about 5:35 am and did not see this crawl on the first leg. I truly believe she came up after he began because the crawl was so fresh. You could still make out…
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…
