Inventory Results from Nest #2

Another beautiful morning on Waties!

This morning, we conducted an inventory of the contents of Nest #2 which hatched back on Monday. After all that rain yesterday, the sand was wet and heavy on the surface and it took a bit of digging just to get the cage off the nest. Digging down was tough too: this nest had several extra inches of sand that had drifted over it since being laid back in June. There were 48 hatched eggs and 9 unhatched eggs. In addition, this nest had 12 eggs lost to the fox back when it was laid. As far as numbers go, it was on the small side compared to our results from last year.









We also had a report of large cat?? tracks on the upper end of the island above Marker 7 which was exciting! To see more details, click on the photo.













Barb and Steve