7 boils in the last 12 hours! Over 400 hatchlings were counted between 8:30 and midnight! GO TEAM!!
Morning patrol:
- Nest 59 hatched sometime during the night with lots of tracks
- Nest 62 hatch early morning with the last one in the runway. All straight to the water.
- Nest 60 had a crab hole and 1 more hatchling track
- Nest 64 had a few more over night and 2 this morning
- Nest 65 had a couple of hatchlings at the nest this morning
- Nest 70 had a crab hole and a few more tracks
Last night:
- Nest 70 had 96 hatchlings starting about 8:30.
- Nest 68 had 101 hatchlings straight to the water around 11:50
- Nest 60 had 81 hatchlings around midnight
- Nest 64 had a slow boil with 84 hatchlings by 10-ish and then another 4 after 11:00
- Nest 65 had 40 more hatchlings emerge around 8:30
Inventories:
- Nest 58 – 110 shells, 5 unhatched, 8 pipped and 19 live hatchlings some of which were pretty stuck in hard wet sand