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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Briarcliffe Nest #4

Briarcliffe Nest #4, nice crawl up the beach to the base of the dunes.  Sharp and steep bank leading up the dunes so turtle nested at the base.   Width of crawl was less than 30 inches, so may have been the turtle who false crawled 



Body pit at the base of the dunes


Someone may have been watching this turtle nest.  A reed was fund in the body pit, maybe trying to mark the egg cavity?


V arks in the crawl, made from a claw on the turtles flipper


Egg cavity quickly found


YES...we have eggs


Eggs were moved back, higher up into the dunes, originally egg cavity was
found below the high tide line





All eggs successfully relocated, covered and marked


Larry processes the DNA Egg, this girl is from Peru
She was fascinated with the whole nesting process


Briarcliffe Nest #4


A big thanks to the Briarcliffe Crew



Briarcliffe Nest #4

108 eggs, 107 relocated above the HTL
1 egg taken for DNA

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