Inventory of IOP Nest #19 August 19

Nest #19 for IOP was found on June 27 in the 9^th Avenue vehicular Access path, which is also in the Corps of Engineers sand project area, by Tay Thompson, Susan Chagrin and Jennifer Martin. Also along were Susan's friends from Summerville, Laura Glover and her 11 year old son Daniel, who aspires to be a marine biologist or a professional soccer player. Two of the 101 eggs that were laid were found broken in the egg chamber. The eggs incubated for 49 days before hatchlings came out. Today's inventory revealed 93 empty eggshells, 6 undeveloped eggs and three healthy live hatchlings. They were released to crawl to the water, where surfers were taking advantage of the swells from Hurricane Erin by Susan, Jennifer, Laura and Daniel and Marion Reiger. Hatch Success was 92% and Emergence Success was 89.1%.

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