Last night was a busy night! It was wet and windy out this morning. The tide has started receding and nest tops looked good.
Nest #2 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 66, Unhatched Eggs – 45, Pipped – 0, Dead -1, Live -0
Nest #5 Inventory
Hatched Egg Shells – 124, Unhatched Eggs – 21, Pipped – 1, Dead -, Live -0
Nest #12 hatched at a full boil at 9:46. 93 hatchlings emerged with Team 5 in attendance.
We got a call at 11:00 PM letting us know that Nest #10 was hatchling with a full boil. (Faithful Team 2 had gone home for the night as there were no signs of activity.) When we arrived, beach visitors had seen 81 hatchlings. 6 more emerged while we were there. We were told that about 1/3 of them got disoriented, possibly by a porch light on a nearby deck. We appreciate the help of the beach visitors and are thankful they called us!
Nest #24 had 1 hatchling track in the runway. We didn’t see any other signs of emergence in any other nests.
We had 2 fairly obvious False Crawls, one nesting site and Nest #89 today.
The crawl for the nesting site had a good time discrepancy, but we just couldn’t find the eggs. We marked it and will keep an on it.
Nest #89 was laid high and dry.
Crawl Width: 102cm/40″
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