On July 15, my neighbor Greg Greene saw a box turtle laying eggs in his vegetable garden. A few days later, he fashioned a heavy domed screen to place over the area where the eggs were located.

Since 2016, Chase and a cadre of volunteers have been keeping records of box turtle nesting in a 300-acre nature preserve owned by Fayetteville.

According to the National Park Service, the nesting process takes about one to three hours to complete. The tiny turtles hatch a few months later and follow the light of the moon to the ocean.

On the Boca Raton beaches, loggerhead sea turtles may break the nesting record for this year.On Juno Beach: Turtle breaks the scalesAnderson said the center’s hatchling drop-off box is regularly ...

One of the most common questions people ask me is what to do with baby, orphaned wildlife that they find. Recently a homeowner from Carmel asked for advice regarding two hatchling box turtles that her ...

Escambia County Sea Turtle Patrol volunteers recorded the first nest of the 2024 season on Pensacola Beach early Friday morning.. Volunteers and staff earlier in the week had found two false ...

The nest will be monitored throughout its incubation period, which can take up to 70 days. Leatherback Lays Early Nest in New Smyrna Beach Marking the earliest recorded sea turtle nest on County ...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- Escambia County Sea Turtle Patrol volunteers recorded the first nest of the 2024 season on Pensacola Beach early Friday morning."After ...