Inventory of IOP Nest #16 August 13

Nest #16 was laid at Ocean Point in Wild Dunes on June 21 and relocated to 30^th Ave. It was a very deep nest, and the mother turtle measured 20” between her rear flipper claw marks. The nest was found by Shree Beverly and Penny Gorby and contained 132 eggs that produced hatchlings during the wee hours of Sunday morning after incubating for 50 days. Today's inventory revealed 126 empty eggshells, five undeveloped eggs, one dead hatchling and ten live ones that were released by Penny and Eileen Montanero along with Eileen's daughter and two grandchildren. The tide was coming in, and the turtles had to navigate over a shallow gulley, but they all made it into the ocean. Hatch Success was 95.4% and Emergence Success was 87.1%.

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