Last night, about 20 volunteers, visitors and Jenna from SCDNR met to conduct the inventory on Nest #1. This nest emerged on Day 56 and four live hatchlings were found and released on Day 60 when the cage was removed.
Last night in very, very windy conditions, Valerie, Nolan and Steve dug up the contents of the nest and found 61 hatched eggs, 44 unhatched eggs and one dead hatchling. When we add in the one egg taken by a ghost crab last week plus the one taken for the genetics study, it makes for a total clutch of 107 eggs. The emergence hatch ratio was 57%.
We had a turtle visitor (a tortoise actually) on the beach too!
Thanks to all who came out last night to witness the event. Barb and Steve
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