Nest #3 this morning - a great way to start the day. After such a long stretch of not much activity, now two nests in three days and hopefully more to come.
This was a smaller turtle - the track width was only 28 inches - but she's a climber. Up on top of the dunes between Marker 5 and 6 she laid her nest. Because of all the sea oats up there, it wasn't obvious where the nest was, but we found it after probing for a while.
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| Long crawl up the beach . . . |
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| and than crawled up the dune |
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| Her nest, in the sea oats |
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Bob and Sandy offering support
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| Probing is hard work |
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| Looking, looking, looking |
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| Paulette finds soft sand and the egg cavity |
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| High and dry - no washovers up there |
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Leslie, Bob, Sandy, and Paulette
| Thanks too to the rest of the Monday team who weren't able to stay this morning - Sherry, Donna, Kim and Maddy. Great job everyone! Barb |
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