Sept 27th H-9 (Day 58) remains active. Thanks to our volunteers for coming out last night for the turtles, for Jerrie and for the FreshAirFamily group. We had 3 families with 5 children eager to hear about sea turtles. Jerrie enjoyed her birthday educating the families and sharing her famous turtle cookies with everyone! H10…
Sept 26th – I-7 thru I-11
Dance!
Sept 26th – H-8 Excavation H8 produced 4 more babies last night!!! This was a great nest with 110/113 hatching. 2 infertile, 1 dead pipped. Tina spent many hours/all nighters listening to these four so it was only fitting that she rescue them at excavation!!! Great job Tina – Thank you!! Big thank you to…
Sept 23rd I-7 day 62 Three little hatchlings broke free of the sand around 7:30 last night. Mary saw them safely to the water in the silver moonlight. All quiet this morning. I-8 day 60 All quiet. I-9, I-10 & I-11 Will be tarped tomorrow (9/24). Dance! Turtle…
Sept 4 – Updates Hey Team! I’m a little behind, but we are officially finished with patrolling for the season! Current nest count for Dauphin Island stands at 18! Another false crawl turned out to contain eggs, unfortunately found after the area was predated. Based on the false crawl data, it should be at roughly…
August 30 — H-5 Hatches!!! Hooray!! H5 hatched last night (Aug 29th) at 10:20 pm. Lance’s nest produced 48/90 eager and well behaved hatchlings. Of course the awesome full moon helped to overpower the condo lights so most crawled straight to the gulf without looking back. Lance Jr. (First hatchling out) proudly led his brothers…
Sept 1 — A-35 & A-36 A35 at Surfside hatched on day 55 shortly after tarping. It is really close to the Nash’s home and they are monitoring and said they are ok without nest sitters. […clip] A36 at the Dunes is being monitored by Marci and she is hearing some noise and expects it…
August 28th (some good news)- Good day, At late check last night we were able to witness a “boil” on I-3! Rick spotted a depression and within minutes 120 hatchlings emerged in the silver moonlight. We are hearing no more sounds, but will monitor closely.Thanks, team for a job well done! Each of you…
