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2024 - A Fast Paced Nesting Season
Today is the 27 days since the first sea turtle nest was laid on Hunting Island this year. We have now hit 53 nests - that’s more than...

FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 10, 20241 min read
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Sunny Sunday Nest 52
Zone 5, Little Hunting is where Nest #52 was located today. Zone 2 had a NNE. Not much of a differential in tracks. Looked like a...

FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 9, 20241 min read
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FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 5, 20240 min read
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Lucky Socks Keep The Blues Rolling
Remember Maeneen’s lucky turtle socks? She had them on today. 5 nests and 1 non-nesting crawl. Zone 4 was busy today. About 2 weeks...

FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 3, 20241 min read
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FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 2, 20240 min read
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A Cloudy, Breezy, Beautiful Sunday Morning adding Nest #37 to the count!
Zone 3 had a classic body pit, but layers of shells and a deep tube shaped chamber made for a challenging probe that succcessfuly...

FOHI Turtle Team
Jun 2, 20241 min read
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Frustrating Friday!
Spotted this great crawl and body pit in zone 4 this morning and was really excited as this was my first pit too prone. I probed the...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 31, 20241 min read
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#30 on Wednesday
This morning nest #30 was found in Zone 3. Turtle Fact: After mating, female turtles return to the beach where they were born to nest. ...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 29, 20241 min read
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Monday Blues Strike Again
We continued our streak on this Memorial Day with cooperation from the mother sea turtles. Zone 4 team arrived on the beach with excited...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 27, 20241 min read
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Sunday Nest 24, Nest 25 and NNE
Everything beautiful on this Memorial Day Weekend Sunrise in Zone 1 illuminated tracks that led to Nest 25 Zone 2 observed a staked tent...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 26, 20241 min read
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Friday Patrol
One false crawl in Zone 4. 1 nest in Zone 2 and a false crawl in Z2 but eggs dropped in surf leaving the beach. Must have been...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 24, 20241 min read
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Wednesday on the board today!
THREE nests today for our volunteers... bringing the total nest count so far to 20 ! Two nests in zone 2, along with a NNC. (The first...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 22, 20241 min read
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HUGELY Busy Morning on the Beach
Perhaps not proper English, however you get the point. 5 loggerhead nests this morning - Zone 2 with 1, Z3 had 3 and Z4 also had 1. 2...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 20, 20241 min read
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Video link
https://youtu.be/YpLDsiz6hcE?feature=shared There was also an impressive sunrise and sand castle on the beach today

Beth Briggs Glass
May 17, 20241 min read
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Quite a sight and I feel lucky to have witnessed it!
We got a call about a large loggerhead at the breach just sitting and appearing to be stranded. We go down and sure enough, there was...

Beth Briggs Glass
May 17, 20241 min read
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FOHI Turtle Team
May 17, 20240 min read
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Beth Briggs Glass
May 16, 20240 min read
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Please help us help the sea turtles!
A large percentage of sea turtles that are found deceased and have a necropsy done on them to discover cause of death, are found to have...

Beth Briggs Glass
May 15, 20242 min read
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Rise and Shine
The sun was up, and so were we! Unfortunately, no turtle activity to report, keeping the nest count at 2. REMINDER: For the sake of...

FOHI Turtle Team
May 15, 20241 min read
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FOHI Turtle Team
May 13, 20240 min read
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