Got a late start this morning. Didn't want to chance doing an inventory in the rain. Saw what I thought would be a large enough break in the rain and emailed everyone. Called Leslie. She met us at the shed and we headed out to the beach. Very little trash.
Nest #3R first emerged at 66 days. Our turtle laid 131 eggs. We knew this ahead of time because we had to relocate (R) this nest. We took 1 egg for research, and lost 2 due to Ghost Crabs, 102 hatched, 26 unhatched. We had no dead or live hatchlings. We did have a pile of small pieces (less than 50%) as shown above.
At Nest #5 we found another egg on the surface.
Nest #4 emerged at 60 days and will also be inventoried this week. Due to the wind and rain, this nest showed no signs of having already emerged. We would never have known that it had emerged by the way it looked today.
Nest #7 is 45 days today. We brought the cage from Nest 3R, which we had finished inventorying, over to Nest #7. We have been caging our nests at 45 days due to the canine predators digging up our nest.
We just made it off the beach when it started to pour!
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