Nest # 4 emerged sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning at Day 60. This morning we did the inventory. It was a little hard to find the nest cavity since the reed was missing. The excavation took on the feel of a "digging to China" event. We even took the step of measuring from the secondary markers to confirm the exact location.
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| Lots of volunteers and guests on hand to observe this morning |
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| Digging to China |
The nest was really deep - it took a lot of digging to get down to where the eggs were buried.
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| Getting ready to sort the contents of the nest |
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| Sand covered but on the way to the ocean! |
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| It was DEEP! Lots of unhatched eggs down there |
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| One of the lucky live ones |
Final outcome was 47 hatched eggshells, 56 unhatched eggs, 3 dead hatchlings and 6 live hatchlings.
Photos by Bill C, post by Barb D
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