Sunday, May 29, 2022 Nest 2R plus 2 False crawls

 Started out humid and very foggy.  We were walking  past  M6 when this long crawl was spotted.

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  She crawled up the dune then headed back down to where she

  laid her nest.  

She laid her nest in the very dark sand and went straight down to the water.Small turtle, crawl measure was 32".

 

After probing for some time, Kim found the nest, which had a total of 103 eggs.  Because the nest was so shallow (7" deep) one  egg was broken during probing. It was used  for the  DNA sample.

Nest #2R  (R because we relocated it)

The original nest was laid  not far from M6.  Kim chose to move it 50' closer to M6, and because of the high tides on Waties chose a higher spot on the dune.

 

   False crawl up past M #7.  This crawl is 35", so we had two different ladies on the beach.  She went up, hit a dune and turned right around.

Third crawl  right up past second crawl.  Because this crawl also  measured 32", we think it is FC for our nesting turtle.  She came right up  went right back down, no body pit or thrown sand.  

 Very proud of the Sunday team!  They did a great job today with heat, humidity, fog and tide coming in.  Special thanks to Barb for supplying one of the pictures and for Leslie coming out to help.