Today, Shirley and Karen found a crawl between Markers 3 and 4. It has been unusually windy on the beach lately and while this morning was beautiful, the tracks were drifed over at the top where the nesting might have taken place. There were fox tracks (as usual) and also the beginnings of a dig, but after extensive probing and experimental digging, no eggs were found. We have marked this site as FC #4.
But, Barnacle Betty has been know to make false crawls before coming in the next night to lay a nest, so Wednesday walkers may get lucky! Hope so.
The NMB Nest R2 had a hole dug at the edge of the cage, but the buried wire did the job, at least this time. Keep checking those cages for any problems. Thanks,
Barb and Steve
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