Picturesque start to the morning
Half of today's group waked the island and the rest did inventory of Nest 24.
Originally this was PN #3 found by the Saturday team on 6/25. They could not find egg chamber so it was marked as a PN.
On Thursday 8/25 hatchling tracks were found so it became our 24th nest of the season.
Wonderful nest results today.
108 hatched eggshells and 4 unhatched eggs. With a 96.4 % emergence and hatch success.
Eggshells were very white and no predators had disturbed this nest.
It was also very deep, 25" down.
Karen took the DNA sample with the help of Donna (guest).
Nest 11R right at entrance also emerged today. It was great to see lots of hatchling tracks going to the water first thing this morning!
Very enjoyable day with lots of great team work! Pictures provided by Karen, Leslie and Lorna.
Some beach art by Mother Nature
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