The 2016 sea turtle nesting season is winding down, but on 8/21 a mama Loggerhead decided to lay her nest in Nags Head. ATV driver Jerry garnered another discovery on his zero dark thirty run.
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Nest finder Jerry
North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission Karen Clark put out the call to the N.E.S.T. response team of the discovery. While the crawl was really wide and the nest site was pretty messy, the distinctive comma shape of the rear flipper and a slight zig-zag of the crawl made the team diagnose it as loggerhead.
Nope, this is NOT the nest pit
The mama Loggerhead sea turtle crawl was a bit out of the ordinary as she apparently picked a spot to lay her eggs and then moved on without doing so to another spot where she did .
The REAL nest pit. Note the walk about crawl on the right.
The DNA magic egg was found in less than three minutes and the area of the nest was marked off soon thereafter. Measurements were made and with crawl data sheet and DNA egg in hand the sea turtle nest #49 response “team” was outta there.
A beautiful sunrise with a Loggerhead sea turtle crawl.
Margaret marks nest 49
Doc Margaret IS the response team for nest #49.
Will there be a sea turtle nest #50? we shall see, we shall see.