Turtle News
We have nest #70!!. Yesterday's zone 3 Walker, Cathrine Scully reported what was potentially a wild nest between boardwalks 2 & 3.. Bill Nelson checked out the area today and found the nest. It was in the process of hatching so we'll inventory the nest in a few days. The exact area was marked as a false crawl on June 22nd so we're sure that's when it was laid. The crawl on 6/22 was found by Norm Powers.
At 70 nests we have the 4th highest number of nests in our recorded history!
Cathrine Scully
We will inventory Nests 50, 52 and 54 on Wednesday, August 23rd at 6:00pm. They are all located about 100 yards north of boardwalk 6.
We will inventory Nests 55 and 48 on Tuesday, August 22nd at 6:00PM. We will begin with nest 55 located 100 yards north of boardwalk 6. The second inventory will take place north of Boardwalk 1 around 6:30.
Nest #44 was found by Anne Snelgrove, Gayle Evans & Barb Hanson. The nest had 150 eggs and hatched in 54 days
Shells 139
Unhatched eggs 11
Dead hatchlings 3
Live hatchlings 7
Total live 136
Hatch success 92.0%
Emergence success 85.4%
Nest #45 was found by Anne Snelgrove, Gayle Evans & Barb Hanson.. The nest had 152 eggs and hatched in 54 days.
Shells 144
Unhatched eggs 8
Dead hatchlings 3
Live hatchlings 5
Total live 141
Hatch success 94.1%
Emergence success 88.8%
Nest #39 was found by C Scully, S Thomas, G Holtz, R Jerome, & D Geller. The nest had 60 eggs.
Shells 21
Unhatched eggs 39
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 21
Hatch success 34.4%
Emergence success 34.4%
Nest #47 was found by Pam Salvestrini, Ruby Jenkins & Mary VanDuesen.. The nest had 121 eggs and hatched in 49 days.
Shells 103
Unhatched eggs 18
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 7
Total live 103
Hatch success 84.4%
Emergence success 78.6%
Nest #69 was found by Nancy Shenton. Pat Backstrom & Judy Morr The nest had 141 eggs..
Shells 135
Unhatched eggs 6
Dead hatchlings 1
Live hatchlings 2
Total live 134
Hatch success 95.7%
Emergence success 93.6%
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