Nest 8 Inventoried on Isle of Palms July 29

Nest 8 was found on June 1 at 516 Ocean Blvd two doors north of the 5A Access path. It was discovered by Susan Lipsey on her Sunday patrol and there were 123 eggs. It appeared that a dog had dug briefly into the body pit, but no harm was done to the eggs. Since it was in the active work area of the ongoing sand project, we relocated it to a safe spot between 30^th and 30A Access paths on the Isle of Palms. The eggs incubated for 54 days before hatching. At today's inventory we found 118 empty eggshells, four undeveloped eggs, one dead hatchling and nine live hatchlings that Susan released to crawl to the water. Sometimes the hatchlings that are still in the nest three days after the rest leave are weaker or have minor physical deformities or problems as was the case with a few of these. But we wish them well as we sent them out into the ocean to begin a long journey. Hatch Success was 95.9% and Emergence was 87.8%.

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