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Nest #20 found in Carova

Nest #20 found in Carova

Around midnight last night a local volunteer was awakened to a neighbor pounding on her window.  He was told her there was a turtle laying eggs on the beach right now.  She immediately rolled out of bed and grabbed some stakes. Crawls in the 4WD beach can be...

Nest #16, Loggerhead in Corolla

Last night before midnight, a loggerhead sea turtle came up on one of the darkest beaches in Corolla and left us with Nest #16.  Bright and early, our ATV rider John called with enthusiasm on his finding.  The nest site was another rather confusing one where mom...

False Crawl #04

Around 11PM the night of June 26th, a report came in about a loggerhead looping around the beach up in Currituck National Wildlife Refuge area of the 4WD beach.  NESTers arrived to find her returning to the ocean.  They staked off the site until the morning until we...