INVENTORY OF NEST #17

The mosquitoes were terrible this morning.  We wasted no time in getting out to the island.

A whole flock of birds heading West as the sun came up in the East

The Coastal Carolina University Turtle Club joined us this morning for the inventory

As well as our Wednesday Walkers

While some stopped to do the inventory, others continued up to check the nests and found that Nest #16 had emerged.

Nest #17 was laid by our mother turtle missing part of her right back flipper.

In the nest we found: 107 hatched egg shells, 32 unhatched eggs and 2 dead hatchlings. 

What will be included in this total are the 3 eggs shells found before the inventory and the one egg taken for the DNA sample for a total of 143 eggs.

Because the crabs have been digging up the eggs from our inventory, we buried them behind the dune.  Now there will be no confusion as to where they came from.

Thank you to all those who turned out this morning.