by KClark | Jul 10, 2013 | Corolla, False Crawl, Loggerhead
5:50 AM ATV rider John calls in with a report of a crawl on the 4WD beach just north of the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge. Nesting Responders were called to the scene and were all hopeful to find a nest site. They followed the incoming tracks up the beach about...
by KClark | Jun 21, 2013 | Corolla, Loggerhead
Duck, Duck, Duck… Carova! Carova finally broke Duck’s streak for nesting activity. Around 11:30 PM the NEST hotline got a call from some beach goers in Carova. They had spotted a large loggerhead sitting on the beach. Shortly after they noticed her, she...
by KClark | Jul 17, 2012 | Corolla, False Crawl
False crawls #11 and #12 raised hopes that last year’s record of 18 nests would be broken, but the turtles decided…not yet! At FC #11 in Ocean Sands, the turtle managed to dodge several canopy frames, crawling directly through one in her journey back to...
by KClark | Jul 14, 2012 | Corolla, Nest
It’s official. We have tied with last year’s record-making year of 18 nests and we still have more season ahead of us! The Stalter’s normally cover the Friday run but they had to go out of town this week. Lucky for Karen, because she volunteered to...
by KClark | Jun 26, 2012 | Corolla, Nest
Sunday kept our Nesting Response team hopping. In the morning we were called to a potential crawl with a ‘nest site’ that turned out to be maybe two chairs pulled up the beach and placed perfectly at a pit and pile of sand. With the heavy rain we had the...
by KClark | Jun 20, 2012 | Corolla, Nest
Two days, 15 hours… and we’re still on a streak! June 19th, we started and ended the day with a nest! 9:25 PM, before KC even had a chance for dessert, Currituck dispatch called with the report of a turtle crawling out of the ocean to nest. Two summers...
