Sunday, June 30 Nest #16

The day started with another beautiful view of the marsh.  It did not take long to become busy. 

There was a reported false crawl right under the 5 Marker.  It is our Special Needs Turtle.  She came up the beach and her tracks disappeared, until right at the base of the dunes faint tracks were seen.  She did dig or attempted to dig a body pit, but no nest chamber was found.

Our SNT crawl 

Where's the rest of her tracks?

As we finished up with this one, another call came and we had a nice crawl right to the left of Marker 8.  This was a classic crawl and nice body pit.  Leslie and Mario probed in the soft sand and were determined to find the nest chamber.  We believe this is the same lady who laid one of our PN Possible Nests.  Karen finally found the nest chamber, which was outside of the body pit.  She hid her eggs well.

Crawl for Nest #16 - Classic In and out

Egg Chamber

Nest 16 - our last June nest, now we shall see what July brings!