Monday, June 20th Nest #7R - False Crawl #11

 Exciting morning, starting with a stunning sunrise.

 

 

 The Monday volunteers walking the long end came across a crawl right before Marker 7.  Classic textbook crawl and body pit.  She laid right in front of the dune, where it is flat.  We moved her nest left of the original nesting area, and higher upon the dune out of reach of coming high tides this summer.  Her width was 35 inches.  She dug a deep nest, 24 inches deep and we moved 111 eggs which seemed to be on the large size.  There was lots of help, and we had a guest with us today who was excited to be able to help with this event.

Very neat and tidy

Looks similar to Breast Cancer Ribbon

We have eggs

Beth happy to help

 

Deep nest, longer arms were requested

The volunteers had dug a new nest and eggs were transferred to a new nest.

Lots of supervision

Beth double-checking the count

Jo Ann happy to transfer eggs to new nest

Eggshell for DNA research

Great team effort

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also had a False Crawl up close to the jetty.  This lady same in, crawled along the dune, did a Curly-Q, crawled up the dune, right beside of Marker #9, and went over the dune to the backside of the dune.  At first, her exit crawl was not seen, but she did get out from behind the dunes after she crawled around for awhile back there.  So happy she found her way out, she did not nest, so maybe she will be back another day. Her crawl was 34 inches.

Crawled along dune and crawled up by Marker 9

Sled down the backside of the dune

She is heading toward the unknown

Tracking her crawl through the brush

She did make it out and back to the ocean