We rounded out May with a lot of sea turtle activity and a big
surprise. In all, Sanibel and Captiva begin June with 101 and 36 nests
respectively. Last year at this time there were 55 nests on Sanibel and 32 on
Captiva.
The big surprise came in the form of a daytime nesting
loggerhead spotted at 9:30 am on Wednesday at the end of the morning’s turtle patrol.
The volunteer patrolling was able to watch her finish nesting from a safe
distance (approximately 200 ft. away) and crawl back to the Gulf.
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| Loggerhead returning to the Gulf after a rare daytime nesting. |
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