Waties Nest 2 Inventory

This morning we did the inventory on our last nest of the season. The Thursday walkers found the tracks and several dead hatchlings at the nest site - and they are the same group who found the original crawl back on July 15.

We had some help this morning from a budding naturalist, Miles. He was interested in everything - from helping take down the poles to digging up the nest contents.

When we inventoried the contents, there were 88 hatched eggs, 21 unhatched eggs (which included one almost fully formed turtle) and 4 dead hatchlings (no live hatchlings). This gave us a "Hatch Success" of 80% as calculated by Seaturtle.org, and an "Emergence Success" of 76.3% - about average.

Looked like some racoon prints in the dunes behind the nest.