SC Nest Counter

Waties Island is a 2.7 mile private undeveloped barrier island at the border of North and South Carolina. Under a permit from SC Department of Natural Resources to help protect the sea turtle, we are at it again this season! The site will be updated often, so please feel free to bookmark us and visit us again to see what's new!

Waties Island Nest Counter

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Monday Morning Picture


Yesterday, Nest 1 had a large sunken hole in the center of the nest and a ghost crab hole to the right. This nest may have emerged as early as last Monday evening (a dead hatchling was found on the beach last Tuesday morning).

When we checked the nest the morning, we found one dead hatchling in the ghost crab pile and also what sure looked like some new hatchling tracks: only a few inches of tracks here and there, surrounded by lots of ghost crab tracks.

One thing is for sure - every nest is different!

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