A loggerhead false crawl was found by Debbie in Blue Mountain Beach, please note this appears to be our turtle with the injured back right flipper.
Nest #25 was found 7/13/09 by Angela second house from the Stallworth walkover, loggerhead this nest was moved straight back with 89 eggs
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Nest #25
Escaped 81
Alive and released 1
7 no obvious
Total eggs 89
Success 92
Dawn was really busy the morning with nest #25 and fc’s #14 and 15 both loggerheads and in Gulf Trace found by April
False Crawl #14 was found by April, a loggerhead 7/13/09 Gulf Trace
Nest #24 was found by Mark in front of Beach Crest condo’s in Seagrove 7/13/09. A loggerhead left in place beautiful nest…
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A real heart breaker. With all the rain and high water, not really sure what happened but when Joe and Bobby dug into the nest they found 72 hatchlings about 4 inches below the surface all looking as if they were climbing up but they were dead. Poor diggers, I guess the water came up over them as they were starting to climb out. Again why we move nests, as you can see by the results it was a great nest. 68 feet from the water when laid and 8 feet from water when dug, and had been washed over.
3 escaped
72 dead in nest
3 dead in piped eggs
2 no obvious
17 dead embryos 97 total eggs
Charlie is still on a roll, finding nest 23 in front of Charlie Hilton’s house……
We did find a place to move it as it was only 25 feet from the surf. 132 eggs!
Notice the nice rainbow in the background of Charlie’s photo!
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Nest #23
escaped 124
Alive and released 4
Dead in nest 2
No obvious 2
Total eggs 132
Success 97%
False Crawl #13 was found on 7/05/09 just west of Pompano Joes in the West end by Pam. See the in and back out of tracks and you can see where to put the flags.
Nest #22 was found by Bobby, who is trying now to beat Charlie, Loggerhead,7/06/09 in front of Walton Dunes, this nest was just above the incoming tide and was moved straight back. Note in the picture of the unmarked nest the area just to the left of outgoing track. The mound of fluffy sand eggs should have been under there.
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#22 hatched 9/06/09 at 62 days
51 escaped from nest
17 infertile no obvious
68 eggs total
75 % success
This was found at 4 Mile 7/04/09 in front of Jerry Jones House, some kind of a turtle but has claws. You in the know is it a fresh water turtle. Came from the Gulf, but lots of Dune Lakes in this area.
I found a nest, I found a nest, hurrah, happy 4th, after dropping off two others to get the west end walked and getting on the beach just past 5:50 walking past the refuge looking camp, Camping on the Gulf, past Sandestin with their 3 rows a mile long of chairs, chairs up at Topsail Resort one row, I breathed a sigh of relief to be in 4 Mile Village, one area in 4 Mile has such short beaches you have to walk in the water, well I keep my head down at all times, you can’t look up and yes, oh yes, a track only a foot and a half long, found the “in “ track, which was 3 feet long and saw the long narrow mound. The tide was coming in and almost onto the mound. So I called Pam to come and do the last part of my walk and I began to dig. Started near the incoming track as that is where the eggs should have been. She had hit the escarpment and could go no higher, so there was lots of thrown sand in a long narrow area. I continued to dig and sure enough they were there 14 inches down and 1 foot away from her out track. Right where they should NOT have been. So by this time Pam was there to help, I had 74 eggs in my bucket and we scaled the cliff and put the nest in a walkover area . The only place we could. The folks have a walk area and a nest. Lucky them. I tell you if I had looked up for even a minute I would never have seen the tracks, and I know tracks and nest area is gone now. It was a Loggerhead, a small one, only 26 inches wide track. 3rd house from the west end in 4 Mile. Only place she could have nested was there, I am not complaining we have a west end nest.
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Nest #21 at 4 mile village was dug into last night by a dog. 14 hatchlings lost their lives and I found broken eggs, blood and tracks this morning, The nest now has a screen over it and the broken eggs are buried away from the nest. People don’t seem to realize what their dogs can do if allowed to run. What a shame. Heart breaking to find early in the morning, That is 4 nests this year to be screened or caged, to many!
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Nest #21 which was predicated
57 escaped
2 no obvious
1 dead embryo( an albino)(my first)
14 depredated
77 % success