Friday Night:
- Nest #36 Inventory-WOW!
- Live Hatchlings-0
- Dead Hatchlings-0
- Pipped Eggs-0
- Unhatched Eggs-1, ONLY 1!
- Hatched Egg Shells-80 (+ a handful of small pieces)
- Nest #44 Inventory
- Live Hatchlings-7 (These poor babies were covered with Ants!)
- Dead Hatchlings-2
- Pipped Eggs-0
- Unhatched Eggs-35 (All liquid, undeveloped)
- Hatched Egg Shells-100 (+ a handful of small pieces)
- Nest #43 had 1 more hatchling emerge at 8:30 pm
- Nest #48 had 2 hatchlings emerge at 8:48 pm
- Nest #47 had a small depression
- Nest #57 had a small depression
- Lightning sent us in for the night! Thank you for keeping yourselves safe!!
Saturday Morning:
- Nest #45 boiled with a Turtle Ambassador watching as 110 hatchlings went straight for the water!
- Nest #48 had a hatchling at the top tangled in a root. The Morning Patrol freed it and watched it crawl to the water.
- Nest #43 may have had another hatchling or so.
- Nest #47 had 2 crab holes.
This conservation work for protected sea turtles on Caswell Beach is authorized by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (ES Permit 21ST03)