From Lisa Graham (Orange Beach Team Leader) – Aug 10th: Wow what a fun crazy night!! Got the call at 7:00, turtle at the top at H-1. Made the Call-em-all, got to H-1. Shortly thereafter, 7:19 Mary calls with turtles at the top at H-2. H-2 Approx. 7:45, 64/121 to the water to the delight of 100+ [visitors]. Nest pretty…
Jan Taylor (Laguna Key team leader) let me know that their team had nest B-28 on Wednesday, July 26th. They relocated 127 eggs. Lisa Graham (Orange Beach team leader) submitted this report of their 8th nest of this season yesterday, July 27th: ————— Yay!! H-8 was laid by Lola last night about 10:30 at the Holiday Inn…
From Ken & Jan Taylor, July 25th: B1 [ the first nest of the 2017 Alabama sea turtle nesting season ] was excavated last night, Monday. Had a good crowd of interested visitors. We did find out during the nest sitting process, the nest was washed over the last high tide day of TS Cindy. No…
Doing a bit of “catch-up” from yours truly. It looks like Orange Beach and Alabama Point have been busy: First off from Lisa Graham on July 14th: Well we made up for no activity with 7 false crawls this morning!!! Greg had 2 false crawls in B, Sheree and Boyd had 3 FC in D,…
July 12th from Peggy Lively (AP Team Leader): Hip-Hip-Hooray ,Just as I was finishing the West patrol, Maggie called. She and Karen had found a crawl [… clip…]. This area is dotted with nests…looks like a crop field! Maggie and Karen continued on and I walked the road to investigate. I found a large body-pit…
From Peggy Lively (AP Team Leader): July 5th: Firework Babies!!!!!!!!! The stupendous fireworks display last night was a prelude to our milestone celebration. Susie found nest I-12 this morning! This is a record-breaker for Alabama Point. Thirty- one inch crawl Mama came ashore and threw sand everywhere. Perhaps she had been doing a little…
Wishing you all a Happy 4th of July! It was a good day for Alabama Point again, and a great start to this holiday: Happy Fourth to all, I walked for Dave today. As I neared the green beach house, I saw an awesome crawl! The Mama had hit the 4X4 flagpole and nested!!!!!…
From Peggy Lively (AP Team Leader) – July 2nd, 2017: Good day! After fooling us with false crawls since April, Petite Mama finally gave us a gift—-Nest I-10. Little Mama first visited us with 3 false crawls in April and again yesterday with 2 false crawls. Rick Dobyns found her beautifully laid nest this morning.…
From Debbie Harbin (FM Team Leader) 7/1/2017: Our mama turtles seem to all like a certain route every day. Today the lucky walker was Amanda Atkins on route 6 Our Road. She had 1 nest and 2 false crawls, one of which they dug and finally marked as a suspicious false crawl. All else was…
From Peggy Lively (AP Team Leader): Good Morning, I was elated to get a chance to patrol this morning, June 27th (subbing for Dave). I hit the beach at very early dawn. All was very quiet and peaceful. A few birds were flitting about. As I neared the bird nesting area …, I spotted…
