A loggerhead nest in Kill Devil Hills NC—the first in several years—has the Nest #2 team very excited. Read More

Nest #3 had several surprises in store for a crew of NEST volunteers. Read More

This second nest on Nag's Head had to be relocated after it was laid close to the high tide line. Read More

Nest #5 was a turtle conservationist's dream-come-true, beginning with a rare daylight nest and ending with live turtles at excavation. Read More

Nest #6 was a "double nest," which is unusual to begin with. The fact that nest monitors completely missed the boil was even stranger. Read More

Nest #7 is a mysterious nest—no one saw it laid, and several washovers means that it has an uncertain future. Read More

Nest #9, laid on the 4th of July, is the first nest in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in several years. Read More

Sea turtle conservationists tried to keep Nest #10 as "natural" as possible, but it was hit by several washovers; its eggs never developed. Read More

Even though Nest #11 was moved from a tidal depression, the ocean overwashed it, and only two hatchlings made it out of the nest. Read More

Nest #12 is proceeding along normally, and there have been no surprises thus far. This in itself is very unusual for a sea turtle nest! Read More

Nest #14 had to be moved from the high tide line. While doing so, conservationists removed one egg for a sea turtle DNA study. Read More

Nest #15 boiled successfully; unfortunately, nobody was there to witness the hatchlings as they made their way to the ocean. Read More

Nest #17 is a very efficient nest with no drama and no surprises so far. Read More

Nest #18 was laid close to the high tide line and close to a fishing pier, so NEST volunteers moved it to a safer place. Read More

Things look bad for Nest #20 after waves washed over this nest and carried the eggs out to sea. Tourists retrieved some of the eggs, but it will be a miracle if they actually produce... Read More

Nest #22 is a complete mystery. There are only eye-witness reports that some 100 hatchlings came out of a nest in Southern Shores. Attempts to learn more by excavating a nest failed when researchers could... Read More

A powerful storm hit the beaches of North Carolina starting on 25 September 2015, and threatened the remaining unhatched nests on the state's Outer Banks.

After more than five months of rehabilitation at the North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke Island, a loggerhead named "Crest" was returned to the beach and set free into the open ocean.

In the span of two days in early January 2016, volunteers patrolling the sound side of Hatteras Island off the coast of North Carolina found 349 cold-stunned turtles. All but two were juvenile green sea... Read More