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Sea turtle nest #39 in Southern Shores

Sea turtle nest #39 in Southern Shores

Dan did it! Dan Waters of the Duck ATV team found a Loggerhead sea turtle nest in Southern Shores 7/27. To adopt Nest #39, click here. Soon after the phones began to ring with the words of Karen Clark (KC) asking nest responders to give Charlotte a call on the...
2016 sea turtle nest #34

2016 sea turtle nest #34

On July 19, NEST ATV driver Jim Kranda found his second nest for 2016 in Nags Head. The nest was very close to Jim’s first find (Nest 24). The odd thing is that the track crawl was very similar on nest 24 and nest 34. The now all seasoned response team quickly...

Sea turtle nest 30, 31, 32 and 33

The sea turtle nest record has been broken and broken and broken! The previous record number of sea turtle nests  … well, some say 26 and some say 27, but the 2016 sea turtle nests monitored by N.E.S.T. is now at 33. 30 and 31 were both discovered on the early...

2016 sea turtle nests 27, 28 and 29

The sea turtles are laughing their tails (pun intended) off keeping us guessing just how many sea turtles there currently are! NEST #27 — About 9:30 p.m. on July 12 the response team got a call from NC Wildlife Resource Commission that there was a reported sea...

2016 sea turtle nest #22

Pop tops a popping, flip flops a flopping, black flies a biting, the sunshine is shining down, Jerry Alexander was having those summertime feelings when he found sea turtle nest #22 this a.m. in South Nags Head. The second nest find for Jerry for 2016. Everyone knows...