Beauty abounds in every zone on Hunting Island. Frosting on the cake, Nest 37 in Zone 2!

Saturday started with nest #35 in zone 3. A very looooong NNC in zone 1- that momma turtle must have packed a lunch and gone on...

From our Data Czar: Thanks Keith! I updated the plot for nests by month with 2025 data so far. The plot show data For the month of May,...

There was a future city planner in zone 1 last night. Busy day on the beach. 4 new nests, one in zone 4 and three in zone 2.

It was an overcast and rainy morning. The rain held off while volunteers patrolled the beach. Not much action on the beach. One...

A beautiful walk this morning! Zone 1 gets it's first Nest #26 Zone 2 located Nest #27 Zone 6 gets it's first Nest #28 All six zones are...

Saturday's team located a new nest. But was this nest made by a Loggerhead turtle? Based on the size of the crawl, the simultaneous...

Busy day today. Nest #22 found in zone 3 with a false crawl that momma turtle decide she was going to crawl back and forth in front of...

It was an exciting morning on the beach ! ~ THREE nests, THREE non nesting crawls, AND TWO TURTLE MOMMAS ON THE BEACH ! Nest #17 in...

Saturday had no new activity and no non nesting crawls. We did have a lovely sunrise

Happy world turtle day. Nest #13 was located in zone 3 and was moved to the dunes. Count was 103 with a few broken eggs so 98 were...

No activity on the beach today , so our wishes were not granted. 😞 Nest count remains at 11 ! 😊 Let’s hope our Thursday team gets...

Zone 2 was busy, Saturday's team located nest#8 and successfully relocated 144 eggs. The nest had been depredated by ghost crabs. Six...

Nest #7 in zone 4 and a false crawl in zone 3. As you can see the difference in incoming and outgoing is small so she did not spend a...

Nest #4 in Zone 4 Nest #5 and #6 in Zone 2....All left in situ! "In situ" is when the nest is left in the location the Momma turtle...

Nest #2 and nest#3 we're located in Zone 3 on Saturday. Both nests were relocated to higher ground. Nest #3 had been depredated by a...

Ran into this storm cloud this morning in Zone 1. Thankfully the rain stayed offshore but we got hit with gale force wind that made...

The first nest of the season was found today ! Long time volunteer, and new prober this year, Viki found her very first nest and the...

As the turtle season continues to wind down.. there is less activity on the beach. Volunteers patrolled this morning monitoring the few...

We are getting down to the end of the season. As we all know things go in cycles, so 128 nests compared with a average 0f 157 nests the...