In the November update from Palm Beach County ERM, we learn two items of interest: (1), loggerhead nesting is up this year over last year, while green and leatherback nests are down; (2), at least two hawksbill nests were found this year; very rare occurrences on PBCo’s shores:

Though sea turtle nesting season officially ended on October 31st, at least two sea turtle nests have been documented in November – a suspected hawksbill nest in Juno Beach and another in Highland Beach. Two confirmed hawksbill nests were also documented during the 2008 nesting season – one each in Boca Raton and Palm Beach Shores. Only 8 hawksbill nests have been documented locally since detailed surveys began in the 1980s. Final nesting totals are not yet available, but preliminary totals indicate that loggerhead nesting was approximately 29% higher than the 2007 nesting season, while green and leatherback nesting declined 22% and 53%, respectively, from the record high 2007 nesting season. 

For those of you who have yet to read Archie Carr‘s Windward Road, or the later, So Excellent a Fishe, what are you waiting for? Migration is over, and won’t start again until April; hit the library, people! And then get out there and do something good.