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

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1 day ago1 min read
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Friday frolics.
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...

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2 days ago1 min read
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Wednesday's Wonderful Finds: 3 new nests!
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...

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4 days ago1 min read
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Saturday Locates 2 Nests
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...

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7 days ago1 min read
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Ominous start for the Friday patrol.
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...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 91 min read
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Turtle Triumph: Wednesday Team's First Nest Find of the Season!
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...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 71 min read
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Wednesday
As the turtle season continues to wind down.. there is less activity on the beach. Volunteers patrolled this morning monitoring the few...

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 19, 20241 min read
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Run Forest, Run.
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...

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 13, 20241 min read
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Sep 8, 20240 min read
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It’s Loggerhead Friday again.
No new activity except a couple of surfers taking advantage of the weather. Inventoried nest 78. 111 eggs moved to a new nest, 12...

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 6, 20241 min read
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First DNA Results Back for 2024 - Wandering Soul
So far there are 12 eggs analyzed for DNA from the 2024 season on HI. There are still over 50 left unanalyzed from 2023. On a July 28th...

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 5, 20242 min read
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On Wednesday we wear green
Turtle patrol was out on the beach this morning checking nests… it was a breezy cool morning with some rough surf! A couple of surfers...

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Sunday, Sunday, Tracking the Tracks
Vounteers Happiness is Successful Hatches!

FOHI Turtle Team
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Loggerheads in Paradise.
Friday morning, hot, buggy and no breeze. View from the top of the Harbor River Bridge. It was quiet on the beach this morning, even...

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 30, 20241 min read
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Wednesday Walk
The hatching of our nests continue.... two nests were observed with hatchling tracks this morning. It was warm on the beach with no...

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 28, 20241 min read
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Our Low Reaches a New High
Now that the 2024 sea turtle nesting season has been called (ended) on Hunting Island, let’s look back historically to 1981. We have 43...

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 26, 20242 min read
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Hatching Success
I took a look at how our relocated nests are doing vs insitu nests in terms of emergence success. Emergence success (ES) measures how...

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 18, 20241 min read
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Friday Frolics.
Beautiful sunrise as we start up Zone 1. Moderate temps, low humidity and a light north breeze made for an enjoyable walk on the beach....

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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Beach days are the best days!
A nice morning on the beach today! Overcast skies and a breeze made it more comfortable. We had another nest hatch in zone 2… Look...

FOHI Turtle Team
Aug 14, 20241 min read
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Aug 5, 20240 min read
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