Waties Island Nest Count

Sunday, July 7, 2019

Sunday, July 7 - Nest #18

We had a delightful walk this morning, nice sunrise, and a brisk breeze.  Just after Marker 8 we had a nice long, long crawl, compact body pit, and a shallow egg chamber.  She arrived at low tide and left at low tide.  She crawled over her incoming tracks twice.  This most likely is the lady who false crawled on Friday. 


Here comes the sun

Long, long way to the dune line

She criss-crossed her crawl here, and close to her nesting site

Half way up the beach, almost there


She crawl along the dune, and found her spot

The second criss-cross, by the nest,
long way back to the ocean

Karen finds eggs!

Shallow Nest

Karen displays egg for our everyone to see




















Thankfully no Ghost Crab activity and none of our nests showed signs of being over-washed.

Today, Leslie had family visitors, Stacie and Skylar, who were thrilled to be here when the crawl was discovered and watched and helped with the nest.
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Sunday Walkers, Diane, Sharon, Leslie, Karen, Stacie
and Skylar, Paulette behind the camera

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