This morning, the Tuesday walkers discovered a crawl on the lower end of the island, between Markers 1 and 2. It was a beautiful sunny day, although quite windy.
This was a smaller turtle - track width of 1' 6" - but it had a distinctive scrape mark down the middle. There were a few fox tracks at the nest site, but no digging.
The team probed and dug and probed some more, and dug some more, and probed some more, until finally we decided to remove the top few inches of sand. We repeated the probing and digging for almost an hour and a half and were unable to find the nest. We have labeled this as a "False Crawl" and marked it with a white plastic pipe marked "FC 1". We'll need to keep an eye on this nest to see if there is any fox activity in the future; if so, we will cage it.
Congratulations to the Tuesday Team - Shirley, Terry, Rita, Bob and Sandy!
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