Friday, August 21, 2020 - Yippee, can you believe it - Nest #20

 Hi All - the morning started with a spectacular sunrise.  It was quiet and serene.

Paulette walking into the sunrise

If you look closely, you will see a "fire rainbow" in the clouds

We found another hole dug by our canine friend, thank goodness it was not one of our nests today.   However, we may need to take steps to protect our nests in the future.

Yes, excited again, our PN (Possible Nest #2) graduated to a nest status today.  The Friday team, Paulette and Leslie, found hatched eggshells on the beach.  We determined the nest emerged.  This nest was laid on 6/25/2020 and is 57 days old today, and is very close to Marker 6.  Several people probed this area, and we were unable to find the nest chamber, she covered and hid it well.   This is giving us lots of hope that our other nests are good, and have made it through the hurricane and storm surge.  We do have to thank the Ghost Crabs, since none of our poles made it through the storm.   They have been giving us "clues" on where these nests are located.  In this case, there were three ghost crab holes.

As you can see, we had three ghost crab holes to chose from - eenie, meeny, miny, moe!

These are the eggs that caught our attention - 3 are hatched eggs

Since we did not have poles with us, we improvised for today, the Saturday team will mark correctly.

We need to walk back . . .  fortunately, we just had some sprinkles - but hot walking with rain gear on.  As you can see, lots of wrack on the beach.