Wednesday, August 21

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