July 8: From Joe Spafford (GSP Team Lead) Hey Team, Just when I thought we were done with major record setting, you go and open a new chapter. Today Shanna Smith (first year team member) found two nests on her patrol. She already found the first nest of the season for our team and now…
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) …
July 8: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) Activity last night. 4 false crawls – feel certain same turtle. Thanks to Cathy (in her back yard again) for running down the beach to try to track her down. […clip…] 9:19 pm Hotline call – turtle was on beach, people chased her away at Holiday…
July 7: From Lisa Graham (OB team Lead) H-19 was actually called in by Savannah McGill and Kayla McCaffity from Texas and Logan Gonzale from Kentucky about 1:00 am this morning. Thank you guys so much for helping to protect our Momma Turtle to successfully nest. Momma T. was covering her nest by the time…
July 7: From Sara Johnson (DI Team Lead) Hi Team!! Whew! We are just over halfway through active nesting season, and it has been jamming! I am so proud of the continued efforts all of you are putting out to get out there and patrol, get the island covered, and respond to crawls and nests.…
July 6: From Lisa G (OB Team Lead) No nests in OB today . 130 total [nests] for Alabama. […clip…] Dianne Ingram (USFW) rode the beach today with me […clip…]. She informed me that record nesting is happening everywhere just as it did in 2012! Our record set that year was 149. […clip…] See you…
July 6: From Joe & Denise Spafford (GSP Team Leaders) Hey Team, Well today sure was a magical day for the Gulf State Park turtle team! Team Disney has nothing on us when it comes to dreams coming true. I guess I need to explain how finding our 8th nest of the season was just…
July 5: From Share the Beach Facebook Page
Great story on Fox 10 about our Seat Turtles! Thanks Steve Alexander for a great story![…clip…]
July 4 & 5: From Lisa G (OB Team Leader) First July 4th: Wow! 5 false crawls today! 3 in E found by RHONDA, 1 in D reported by Jane and Tina K found her first crawl today in A2. Does that mean we almost had 3 or more nests today???? OMG! [Ed Note: Was…
July 3rd: From Lisa G (OB Team lead) Gosh who would have thought OB would have 15 nests!! 122 nests overall!!! 50 for Ft. Morgan!! This mornings nest was in section B. This makes 7 nests in B. This nest was spotted […clip…] at 4:20 am by Jude working as a turtle spotter with LOF…
