Start of another early morning on Waties Island. As we started walking there was lightning over the ocean, in the far distance, good look at an anvil and shelf cloud. Sorry to say it was an uneventful morning, no overwashes, no new emergences, but we did see more hatchling tracks coming from our 6R Nest which will be inventoried on Wednesday.
Our pesky Ghost Crabs are getting into the nests that have been inventoried and removing the eggshells - the Wild Nest up at the jetty, right of Nest #19, and Nest #5, by Marker 6. We bury the eggshells after an inventory to help the nourishment of the dunes, but we may need to start disposing of them in a different manner due to the activity of the Ghost Crabs.
Our Nest #8, lower end of the island, has not emerged yet, hopefully any day, but the Ghost Crabs are causing issues, we lost an egg today, so we gently covered and filled in the the hole.
No better way to start the day, view of the marsh. Storm out over the ocean.
Nest #8, lower end of the island. This nest is 55 days old and no sign of an emergence. However, we have Ghost Crab activity and an eggshell was found today.
Nest 6R was found emerged by the Sunday Walkers - 57 days.
This was the turtle who climbed over the top of a huge dune and fell down the
back side where she laid her nest. It was relocated to the front side of the
dune just below Marker 6. More hatchling
tracks were found today.
Our pesky Ghost Crabs are removing the spent eggshells after our inventories, this is a picture of Nest #5, Marker 6 with the eggshells.
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| Nest 20 - eggshell found |
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Nest #20 - how are the Ghost Crabs
getting into the egg chamber? |
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