Inventory of IOP Nest 23 August 27

Nest #23 was found by a very special group of Turtle Team volunteers who are all retired teachers on July 3. They are Sue Googer, Jane Powers, Linda Bettelli and Debi McGee. This nest was laid near the 34A Access Path. It was laid down on the beach below the spring tide line and moved higher to the base of the primary dune at that same location. It contained 93 eggs and incubated for 52 days before turtles came out on August 24. There were no live hatchlings left in the nest this morning. Four eggs failed to develop and one hatchling was found dead in the nest with no live ones to release. We took a tissue sample from the one to use for the new paternity genetics research project and it is in a vial of alcohol. Hatch Success was 93.5% and Emergence Success was 92.4%, so this nest did very well.