tehag - 11-28-2012 at 07:22 PM
Nature bats last!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgbub9WfV-o&feature=youtu...
[Edited on 11-30-2012 by tehag]
Turtle update
tehag - 11-29-2012 at 08:36 PM
Turns out these hatchlings are a real big deal.
"Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles, which are the rarest sea turtles and are critically endangered."
Paula - 11-29-2012 at 08:46 PM
That little Ridley sea turtle is adorable! Such a tiny critter finding his way in a great big sea...
Retraction
tehag - 11-30-2012 at 05:11 PM
Before Getting too excited over the nesting success going on right now in front of Loreto Bay and Villas de Loreto, I went up a level among the local
biologists to get corroboration of the ID "Kemp's Ridley", Lepidochelys kempii, provided by a non-credentialed naturalist and am informed that it is
not correct. The turtles being extracted and processed from one or more nests in Nopoló the past few nights have been "Blacks" which is the local
designation of the much more pedestrian "Green sea turtle" Chelonia mydas.
Still a very cool thing to be happening next to a golf course between 2 major developments. Maybe the event will clinch the discussion about
protecting the strip of small dunes and wild grasses that border the beach. That the area is an active nesting zone for a species of international
concern (IUCN Red List) is no longer merely conjecture.