Thursday's walk and inventory of #8 nest

Nice walk today.  #9 did not emerge.  Depression still there.  Lots of ghost crab tracks.  #7 did emerge.  Barb will be following up with the details on that inventory.  All the other nests were relatively quiet with a few ghost crab trappings.

The inventory of #8 was held after our walk.  The group of walkers present worked together and all went well.  Our Coastal students worked to dig the eggs out, many of which were in the roots of the sea oats that had grown around the nest.  Getting some of the eggs out was not easy!  When all was done and accounted for we counted 68 hatched eggs and 24 unhatched.

And then there is the usual beauty of our island!