Nest # 57 and Inventories of Nests 4, 7 & 8

Walkers Kathy Rigtrup, Kathy Maher & Lisa Hillman Found the crawl and Probers Sandy MacCoss, Terry Fansler & Beautsie Zahrn responded. Sandy found Nest #57 and Terry found the eggs.  As always Beautsie provided leadership and wisdom. The Kathys moved the eggs to a safe location away from the high tides.

Here are the results from today's Inventories -

Nest #8 was found by Tory Kindley, Pat & Bob Derajtys & Sandy MacCoss. It hatched in 54 days. There were 111 eggs.

Shells                   108               Hatch success               96.4 %

Unhatched eggs        3               Emergence success       91%

Dead hatchlings        0

Live hatchlings          6

Total live               108

 

Nest # 4 was found by Lori Porwoll, Ruby Jenkins, Sal Vastrini and Lynda Zeger. It hatched in 57 days. There were 110 eggs and 7 spacers

Shells                    96                  Hatch success          86.6%

Unhatched eggs     14                   Emergence success  84.8%

Dead hatchlings       2

Live hatchlings         0

Total live                94

Nest #7 was found by Terry Fansler, Chris Czander & Gloria Reynolds. It hatched in 55 days . There were 104 eggs.

Shells                   87                     Hatch success          82,8%

Unhatched eggs    17                      Emergence success  80%

Dead hatchlings      2

Live hatchlings        0

Total live               85

Nests 55 & 56

Nest #55 was a "wild" nest that had already hatched found by Pat Backstrom, Bob Mason and Judy Morr about 50 yards south of boardwalk 6. The nest had 107 shells, 40 unhatched eggs and 1 live hatchling.

Bob Mason and Pat Backstrom found a crawl just south of boardwalk 8.Bill Greubel probed and found nest #56. They moved the nest to higher ground south of boardwalk 6.

Nest #54

At dusk on Wednesday, July 20th, several onlookers and Turtle Patrol Members had the good fortune to see the Loggerhead come ashore and lay her nest. The crawl was found the next morning by Marsh Papanek & Joyce & Tom Pinckney. The nest was located by Bill & Eileen Middleton and relocated above the high tide line.

Nest # 53

Walkers Veronica L'Allier, Bob Mason & Ginger Seabrook found about a dozen egg shells on the beach below the high tide line. Bill Nelson then located a "wild" nest that had been predated by an animal of some sort. Nest #53 had 60 remaing eggs which were relocated to higher ground. Prognosis for these remaining eggs is not good as they were washed over by the tide several times and some were discolored.

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