Waties Island Nest Count

Saturday, September 28, 2019

The Last Nest...

Our last walk, last nest, last inventory of the 2020 season.

What a great turnout this morning! We had lots of members of the Coastal Sea Turtle Club along with us to observe this inventory of Nest #24. This was a nest that was laid back on July 21 and it took an extra long time to emerge; 66 days.

Lots of regular walkers and students too

The CCU Seniors took charge of digging up the nest while instructing the club members about what was happening the procedures to follow when conducting an inventory.

Nest should be right under that reed

Love that Karen Beasley pink tee shirt!

Digging down


Starting the sorting process

 When it was all said and done, there were 46 hatched eggshells, 46 unhatched eggs and one egg taken for the DNA sample in July. About a 50% hatch success ratio.



Almost finished


A small exit hole in this eggshell

Sarah showing students what's inside an unhatched egg

This one was a partially formed hatchling



This Saturday walkers  :)
Thanks Val for sharing your photos today!



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