An exciting morning. 13 students were with the Tuesday Team along with Leslie and Erin. Very eager hands in all. Leslie has this down to a science. She gives the overview. Describes the job and assigns the jobs - Diggers, Helpers, Sorters. All four volunteers assisted in supervising, it was easy going. The girls were lovely.
This inventory was on our PN#3 which became our Nest #12. This nest was laid right at the base of the dune on July 17th. It was a classic nest site, her crawl was 31 inches. Unfortunately, the nest chamber was not located and just a DNR sign was placed in this area, for our volunteers to check in this area. On Friday, September 3rd the volunteers reported a depression, and a cage was placed in this area to help deter the coyotes. On Septermber 11th, there was evidence of an emergence, but the emergence hole was behind the cage. It has been an interesting season.
The CCU Sea Turtle club members eagerly took to the task of digging up this egg chamber, it was a task, the nest chamber was 25 inches deep. Before hitting the nest chamber, a dead hatchling was found - always a sad finding.
The students also dug where the reed had been placed, just in case - nothing was found. There were 105 hatched eggs, 6 unhatched, 1 dead hatchling and very few pieces. With the 7 eggs we lost to Ghost Crabs before the inventory the clutch consisted of 118 eggs. A success rate of 88.9% and an emergence rate of 88.1%.
See the next post about the fire on Waties this morning.
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| Look at those Woodstorks! |
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| Getting ready to start |
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| Nest #12 |
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| Starting the digging, lots of help |
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| Volunteers watching over the eager students |
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| The nest cavity was 25 inches deep |
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| Sorting |
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| Everyone busy |
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| Inventory sorting |
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| Nice job Ladies |
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