This morning we inventoried a nest laid by our "Waties Lady" - she's the momma who has laid her last 10 nests in a row of Waties Island. Might even be a few more but not all the DNA results are back yet.
There ended up being 107 hatched egg shells in the nest and 17 unhatched. One dead hatchling in there too but no live ones. One egg shell was found on the surface on August 1 and one was taken for the DNA sample, so the total for the nest was 126 eggs, an 85% hatch success ratio. Pretty nice!
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| Charlene and Connie at work |
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| Starting the sort |
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| Just about finished |
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| An old car engine submerged for years |
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| Wonder how long it's been buried?? |
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Barb and Steve
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