Tuesday, September 22

The highest tides are during the daytime and have over washed most of the nests but not all.  Some of our tools and green were moved back by visitors yesterday when it came in so high.  A trench has been formed in front of the nests in some areas.  

We did get a call yesterday afternoon about shells in the dune.  An animal had exposed them.  We excavated a wild nest, nest 67 and counted 78 shells and 5 unhatched eggs but shells were blowing in the wind.

Thursday, September 17

Nothing new today.

Because of the king tides and prediction of heavy rain, we excavated everything that had hatchling evidence.

Inventory results:

Nest 26 @ 80 days: 102 unhatched eggs, 2 shells and 4 pipped eggs

Nest 30 @ 80 days: 8 unhatched eggs and 1 pipped.  (76 eggs destroyed by fox 8/4)

Nest 48: 134 unhatched eggs.  There were tracks around the nest yesterday morning  so there may be a wild nest close by.  The eggs were undeveloped.

Nest 54:  42 unhatched eggs, 27 shells and 6 dead hatchlings. ( 18 eggs destroyed by fox or crabs prior to excavation)

Nest 55: 6 unhatched, 85 shells, 4 pipped, 1 dead and 1 live hatchling. 🙂

Nest 57: 19 unhatched, 96 shells and 2 pipped eggs.  Quite the surprise!

Nest 59:  33 unhatched, 72 shells, 4 pipped, 1 dead and 1 live hatchling

Green was picked up and moved to everything except nest 65.  We did not pick up buckets or tools.  If your stuff is out there and you want to maintain it, try to get it sometime today or tomorrow.  Sometimes we don’t recognize “special” buckets and tools.

12 Remaining nests: 44(day66), 45(65), 47(65), 51(61), 52(60), 56(57), 60(52) through 65(26)

Wednesday, September 16

Nest 54 had 3 more hatchlings emerge yesterday evening and 1 more during the night.

Nest 44 had a dog or animal dig into the nest again and still didn’t find any eggs.

Nest 47 had 2 crab holes and dog tracks all around

Nest 59 hatched during the night.  It was a nest marked by a resident and we missed the spot by 2 feet.  All the tracks were outside the green and 3 dead hatchlings succumbed to crabs.

Nest 48 hatched during the night.

Nest 57 had 1 hatchling last evening.

Nest 55 had 1 hatchling emerge and now we know where the nest is!!!!!