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 post we highlighted the very loyal HI mother sea turtle CC000023. Time to look at one wandering mother sea turtle - CC000110. Again she was one of the first in the database.
CC000110 was first spotted via DNA analysis in 2009 on St Catherines Island, GA. She has nested every 2-3 years since and she reappeared this year on HI on May 18th in Zone 4 (also 4th nest of the year on HI).
She nested almost exclusively on St. Catherines in 2009, 2012 and 2015, except 1 quick trip to Little St. Simons. After that she started moving north. 2017 was exclusively Pritchards Island. Then in 2019 it was exclusively nesting on Hilton Head.
In 2021 she visited Little Capers and Fripp Island 1 time each, then ended her season with 2 nests on Hunting Island. Now in 2024 she was back on HI for your first nest of the year most likely. Only more DNA analysis will tell us more as long as lab funding for all beaches is maintained.
In addition to being a bit of a wandering soul, she seems to have an odd quirk. Ever since 2015, she always leaves a large gap apparently between first nest of the season and her second nest - 26 to 28 days. I don’t know why. Either a nest was missed somewhere or she just doesn’t follow the sea turtle rules (nesting every 10-14 days). It is odd though that the gap is always after her first nest of season.
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