Hello and welcome to the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project blog!
For the 23rd consecutive year, the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project will be monitoring Pasture beach in search for hawksbill turtles. Rox and I (Dtrain) – thanks Sir! – got to Jumby Bay today having spent a few days acclimatising in our home away from home with our Antiguan parents... a few days to catch up on the past 6 months, to get back into turtle mode and back into living our crazy (but awesome) nocturnal life. Warm up started this evening...and we will be patrolling at least half the night to get back into the groove of things!
We went up the beach during the day, and found 7 crawls with what looks like 5 nests. One false crawl was fresh from last night so we are hoping that she will be back tonight. The others seemed older. Things look promising!
To keep things turtle oriented, let’s get a few predictions up and we will find a prize for the winner...although the winner will only be found out in 6 months time! We need predictions for total turtle numbers, neophytes and remigrants; so if you would please leave in comments your numbers or email us on admin@jbhawksbillproject.org
FYI, the last 4 seasons have seen: 23, 23, 27, 28 neophytes and 63, 62, 66, 67 turtles in total. More info is available on the website and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!
Dtrain: total: 71, Neo: 31, Rem: 40
Rox: total: 70, Neo: 30, Rem:40
Until next time, Dtrain and Roxy!
