NMB SEA TURTLE NEST # 20

 ON AUGUST 3RD, A CALL COMING IN FROM SANITATION TO THE NMB STP HOTLINE,  SEGMENT B WALKERS WERE SOON AT THIS CRAWL, MORE NMB STP VOLUNTEERS CAME  TO HELP.

PART OF THE INCOMING AND OUTGOING CRAWL

THIS MOTHER MADE A COUPLE STOPS, APARENTLY LOOKING FOR A PERFECT SPOT BEFORE GOING ALL THE WAY UP TO THE DUNES, TURNING AROUND AND GOING BACK TOWARDS THE WATER AND NESTING.

YOU CAN SEE FOX PRINTS LEADING RIGHT UP TO, AND THE MIDDLE OF THE EGG CHAMBER. ONE WAY THE NMB STP HELPS TO PROTECT THIS NEST IS BY PUTTING A CAGE AROUND THE NEST TO PROTECT AND HELP DETOUR THE FOX OR ANYTHING ELSE SHARING THE BEACHES WITH US,  WE ALL NEED TO COEXIST TOGETHER, WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE. 

PROBING IS DONE AND THE NEST IS FOUND

THE EGGS ARE COUNTED, AS THIS NEST WAS LAID IN A VERY HIGH TRAFFIC PART OF THE BEACH, WITH MANY BRIGHT LIGHTS BEHIND THE NEST, THIS NEST IS RELOCATED TO A SAFER PART OF THE BEACH.

86 EGGS, ONE WILL BE USED FOR DNA STUDIES.  TOWARDS THE END OF SEA TURTLE NESTING CYCLE, THE NUMBER OF EGGS SHE LAYS TYPICALLY BECOME SMALLER.  IT IS THOUGHT THAT ONCE THIS MOTHER STARTS NESTING, SHE DOES NOT EAT AGAIN, UNTIL THE END OF NESTING CYCLE.

DON AND KIM WORKING ON THE CAGE THAT WILL PROTECT THIS NEST FROM ANYTHING SHARING THE BEACHES WITH US.

PROTECTED NMB SEA TURTLE NEST # 20

RMEMBER WE CAN ALL HELP IN LITTLE WAYS TO PROTECT THE SEA TURTLES

LET ONLY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON GUIDE THE SEA TURTLES TO THE OCEAN.

All Sea Turtles are endangered, they are federally, and state protected, special guidelines, training and permits are required to work with nesting Sea Turtles, nest, eggs, hatchlings and strandings.

If you see a nesting Sea Turtle, hatchlings, or stranding in NMB or Briarcliff please call the

NMB STP Hotline

843-213-9074

Anytime Day or Night