Monday, July 25th - False Crawl #20

 The day started with a nice brisk wind.  Here's some interesting pictures of some of the sand sculptures we saw today on the lower end

Tree in the dunes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had another lady that came in to nest and she had an adventure when she decided to go over to the backside of the dunes.  She came in and due to the wind there were no tracks in the soft sand, so where did she go? We started walking and looking along the dune line, and an area was spotted that looked like she slid back down the dune, before leaving.  It was very close to PN#6 so there was some uncertainly.  Leslie crawled up the dune and spotted her tracks and several places she may have used to rest and/or turn around.  To be certain she did not nest, both Leslie and Erin probed these areas and did not find soft sand, just crunching roots from our probing.

Tracks disappear

Where did she go?

This pic shows incoming & outgoing

Her tracks behind the dunes

Discussing probing

Looking, Probing, Looking

 

 

 

She did crawl around behind the dunes and scrambled up the backside and slid down the front.

 

You can see where she climbed up the dune - Lorna is standing close to the place

 

Yes, back to the ocean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We called this a False Crawl due to her tracks coming and leaving - they were very close in length, so we feel she was not there long enough to nest - time will tell.

To help end the day, Lorna found a new toy at the lower end, and the team who walked the long end surprised us with a picture of a rainbow.

Lorna's find today

Rainbow