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…
June 23rd: Hey everyone, We were able to patrol most of the refuge this morning and unfortunately a few of our nests were inundated because of the storm. However, we still have a few nests that were only partially inundated and some that are almost completely dry! That one mama who laid her nest at…
Fathers Day weekend proved to be a busy one along the Alabama coastline for momma sea turtles. If you include Friday in the weekend then we had 7 nesting sea turtles over those 3 nights. Following are a few of the highlites: From Ft Morgan 6/17/17: We have proof that storms don’t bother mama turtles…
From Haley (Bon Secour NWR) June 11th Hey all! We got another nest on the refuge this morning along with two false crawls! The first false crawl looked suspiciously like a nest with thrown sand and trampled vegetation but we dug the whole mound up and found no eggs. The nest that was reported by…
This in From Haley again on June 9th……. Hey everyone! We got another nest on the refuge this morning (June 9th) which brings our total up to 5! [….. clip …] Today’s nest was [ in ] the Perdue unit and it did not need to be relocated. Thank you to Morgan and Diana for…
Another late post from yours truly … someday I may actually catch up. This from Haley (Intern at Bon Secour NWR) from June 4th. ———————- Hey everyone! Today was the magic day! We found 1 false crawl and 2 nests on the Fort Morgan unit! The first nest was [… clip …] at the very…
