Sunday September 2 Emergencies and Inventory

Sunday was an exciting day on Waties!! The walkers found that Nest 9 and Nest 10
had emerged overnight! The tide was high at midnight so the run to the sea would
have been optimal time!
Nest 9 was laid on Thurs. July 5 below marker 5. The Thursday crew had two false crawls and this
nest that day-and the nest was very hard to find. A depression had formed on Thur.
August 30. The nest emerged on Sunday, Sept. 2, day 59.
Nest 10 was found on Monday, July 9 near marker 8. A depression was seen on Saturday. The nest emerged Sunday, Sept. 2, day 55.

Both these nests will be inventoried on Wednesday, Sept. 5. All are welcome to join the walkers that morning at 6:30 to walk to the nests.

Our inventory of Nest 7 was well attended by a large group of students from Coastal Carolina, led by Erin and Mario. They did a great job digging up and sorting the eggs. This nest was laid in the dunes below marker 1 on Sunday, July 1. It had shown signs of emerging on Thurs. August 30, day 60 of incubation. Even though new sea oats had grown over the nest site, we found 72 hatched eggs and only 11 unhatched!! There was one dead hatchling and one pipped egg. An 85.7% hatch success!! Another good nest for Waties!!
Pictures by Leslie and Post by Paulette

Nest 9 sits in the middle of the beach. See the tracks?

Nest 10 lots of tracks to the sea!!

Inventory of Nest 7

Erin, Mario and students