• Crawls
> 67 Nest
> 46 False Crawls
• Nests
> 38 Relocated nests– 56.7% (NC 30.5%)
▪ 9 nests relocated from east end
▪ 29 nests relocated above tide line
> 27 In Situ nests
> 2 Wild nests
>Averaged 113 eggs per nest, ranged 76-154
• Nests loss
> Weekend of 16 inches of rain, June 11-13 effect on nests 1-16
> Isaias
▪ 10 nests never located
▪ 11 nests had 100% unhatched
▪ 7 nests had 10 or less shells
> King tides
▪ Late July
▪ Sept 20-23
• 7291 Eggs
> Relocated nest
▪ 4490 eggs
▪ 1608 hatchlings
▪ 35.8% hatch rate
▪ 5 nest lost
> In Situ nests
▪ 2801 eggs
▪ 1664 hatchlings
▪ 59.4% hatch rate
▪ 5 nest lost
> 3272 Hatched eggs
> 2974 Emerged hatchlings – 38.8% emergence success (NC 44.3%)
> Lost eggs
▪ 193 lost to fox or animal
▪ 1 ghost crab
▪ 65 DNA
▪ 1 broken in nest
▪ 71 missing after Isaias
• Overall 42.4% hatch success (NC 50.8%)
• Incubation Days (nests that actually hatched)
> Average 56.6 days
> Range 48-72 days
• Crawls
> Average crawl width 35.12
> Ranged 28-42 inches
• Superlatives
> Latest nest ever- nest 65 on 8/22
> Nest #1 -72 days incubation
> 2 nest were laid during the daytime 25 & 43
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➢ Volunteers reporting time and travel as of 11/12
▪ 5900 Hours reported
▪ 28073 Miles driven
I have divided the season into
1) Pre Isaias,
2) Isaias affected incubation, and
3) Post Isaias.
1) Nests 9-14 were excavated on I-day because there had been hatchlings or signs of hatchlings. So all nests 1-14 had survived the June weekend of 16 inches of rain and while success wasn’t the greatest, they were all in the water
2) Nests 15-62 were all in the ground on I-day. Day after the storm some were still marked, some were located by visitors, some were located by animals, some were barely under the sand, some were so deep we nearly lost the excavators, some nests were lost. Some of the lost were washed away. Some of the lost were just never located. Some of the located nests had less eggs after the storm than before. Some of the lost were probably just too deep for us to find. Some were so compacted in the sand that hatchlings were odd shaped.
3) Nests 63-65 were laid after Isaias but nests 63 and 64 were overwashed during the king tides Sept 20-23. Nests 66 and 67 were wild nests that were high in the dunes and survived all the elements.
| Nests | Eggs | Shells | UH | Dead H | Live H | Hatch % |
| 1-14 | 1733 | 1362 | 337 | 40 | 175 | 79.2 |
| 15-62 | 5097 | 1539 | 2574 | 48 | 33 | 29.9 |
| 63-65 | 275 | 243 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 88.4 |