Turtle News
We will inventory Nests 18, 26 & 28 on Friday, August 4th at 8:30 AM. Nest 18 was found by Valerie & Mark Doane on May 28. Nest 26 was found by Norm Powers on June 8. They are both located between boardwalks 6 & 7. Nest 28 was found by Pat Greubel & Arline DeGennaro on June10th. It is located south of boardwalk 1.
Hope to see you there.
Even Horse Love Hatchlings
Nest #15 was found by Denisa Collins & Jen & Harvey Gibson. The nest had 109 eggs. It hatched in 63 days.
Shells 109
Unhatched eggs 3
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 109
Hatch success 96.4%
Emergence success 96.4%
Nest #30 was found by Karen Sewell & Heather Heath.. The nest had 121 eggs. While loosening the sand in anticipation of the nest hatching it was discovered that the nest was soaked and the eggs were all rotten..
Shells 0
Unhatched eggs 120
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 0
Hatch success 0.0%
Emergence success 0.0%
On Wednesday, August 2nd, we will be inventorying nests 29 and 68 starting at 8:30 AM. We will begin with nest 29 which is located north of boardwalk 1. We will then inventory nest 68 which is 10 yards south of boardwalk 4.
Nest #13 was found by Denisa Collins & Valerie & Mark Doane. The nest had 163 eggs. It was washed over and did not hatch.
Shells 0
Unhatched eggs 163
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 0
Hatch success 0.0%
Emergence success 0.0%
Nest #14 was found by Judy Benko. The nest had 132 eggs. It was washed over and did not hatch.
Shells 0
Unhatched eggs 132
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 0
Hatch success 0.0%
Emergence success 0.0%
Nest #16 was found by Harvey Gibson. The nest had 130 eggs. The nest was inventoried because an attempt to soften the sand revealed that the nest had already hatched..
Shells 130
Unhatched eggs 4
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 130
Hatch success 96.2%
Emergence success 96.2%
Nest #23 was found by Melanie Jerome, Gayle Evans and Anne Snelgrove. The nest had 97 eggs and it hatched in 57 days.
Shells 90
Unhatched eggs 7
Dead hatchlings 2
Live hatchlings 2
Total live 88
Hatch success 91.8%
Emergence success 87.7%
We will be inventorying nest 15 on Tuesday, August 1st at 8:30am. It is located south of boardwalk 9. The nest was found by Jen & Harvey Gibson & Denisa Collinson May 27th.
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