Saturday Inventories:
No new crawls to report. Laying may have ended for the season. Today was very busy attending to 6! inventories, 2 morning and 4 evening. The evening had large crowds. SPECIAL THANKS to the teams who came and assisted at the evening inventories!
Saturday/Sunday Hattches:
Last night we had 3 nests with some emergence!
Nest #19 had 4 hatchlings emerge with Team 3 present. 3 were disoriented by a street light.
Nest #33 had 84 hatchlings emerge at 10:49 with Team 10 present. They moved very quickly as a group down the center of runway and straight to the water. A few stragglers trying to keep up with the group headed back up the ramp but eventually found their way to the water.
Nest #28 had 85-90 hatchlings emerge at 12:18 am with Team 5 present and some happy visitors.
Inventories in occurrence order:
Nest #17 Inventory (see Yesterday’s Post)
Hatched Egg Shells – 90
Unhatched – 18
Pipped – 2
Live – 0
Dead – 0
Nest #14 Inventory (see Yesterday’s Post)
Hatched Egg Shells – 118
Unhatched – 2
Pipped – 0
Live – 2
Dead – 1
Nest #15 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 131
Unhatched – 13
Pipped – 0
Live – 6
Dead – 6
Nest #23 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 116
Unhatched – 11
Pipped – 0
Live – 1
Dead – 1
Nest #25 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 137
Unhatched – 5
Pipped – 0
Live – 0
Dead – 1
Nest #16 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 15
Unhatched – 12
Pipped – 2
Live – 0
Dead – 11
Very Small Spacer Eggs – 11
There were only 29 eggs total! 40 with spacers!
Nest #15:
Nest #23:
Nest #25:
Nest #16:
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