Another beautiful sunrise this morning on the beach ❤️ Hatching season continues and volunteers monitor the nests and look for tiny...

Guess what the wind blew in? NEST #195 !! located in zone 2 and relocated to higher ground. Hatching continues on the beach with many...

Typical for the middle of August, Zones 1 -4 reported tracks of a few nest boils and other minor activity.

In 2023, we are now at day (192 nests) 92 of the nesting season vs 93 days for the complete 2022 season, and the 2023 season may not be...

Another beautiful sunrise on the beach for Turtle Volunteers on Wednesday ! Volunteers found one non nesting crawl today .. the Momma...

Today we had 5 nests hatch ! Just look at all those little tracks heading for the ocean! Good luck little ones ……………………… A beautiful...

A PUBLIC NEST INVENTORY will be held Wednesday, August 2, at 7 PM. Park at the lighthouse and go south (right); look for the volunteers...

Today we had SEVEN nests hatch! - that's hundreds of baby turtles making a mad dash for the ocean - dodging predators, and navigating...

Zone 1 Nest # 177 was located along with a NNE Zone 2 One NNE Zone 3 One NNE and observed Nest # 16 had boiled. Also assisted a...

AND WE HAD OUR FIRST HATCH OF THE SEASON! Nest #5 hatched in zone 4 Volunteers also reported: 2 NNC in Zone 4 2 NNC in Zone 3 Nest #174...

After this morning's (Monday 7/17) good "haul" on the beach of 4 nests, here is an update. Only 5 more nests needed by the sea turtles to...

4 nests today 🥳🎉 Nest 168 and 171 in Zone 2 169 in Zone 3 170 in Zone 5 (Little Hunting) All needed relocated as they were laid very...

A beautiful morning with the only activity in Zone 2. Two NNE, and Nest #167. L. Sigafoos, July 16, 2023

Attached is the latest update on how the 2023 nesting season is shaping up. BTW - no emergences have been reported statewide as of this...

Turtle volunteers started their morning with a beautiful sunrise.... Nest #155 was found in Zone 4 - sadly depredated by raccoons......

I looked at clutch counts over time in 2022. The first graph is all turtles (with a 15 day moving average) and in red are the clutch...

Nest 149 in zone 3 Nest 150 and nest 151 in zone 2 NNC zone 1

It has been a busy 10 days on the Hunting Island beach for loggerheads - 37 nests over that period. Over the same 10 day period in 2022,...

FOUR new nests today #129,#130,#131 & #132 and three NNC (non nesting crawls) ! The momma turtles don’t show any signs of slowing down...

Wow, 2023 continues to perk right along. We are tracking pretty darn close to the nest counts in 2022 at this point and ahead of 2019. ...