Nest #3 found in Duck

   June 11th 2011 Nest#3: With less than half a mile on her run, N.E.S.T. ATV rider Jackie wasn't expecting to find a crawl but was elated when she did. This large loggerhead (crawl width was the largest yet this season at 106 cm wide) made her way all the way up the beach and to the foot of the dunes before laying her eggs. On her way out, she slide into an old abandoned hole. Fortunately the front side of the hole had already been leveled by ocean waves so she only had to crawl back up a little to get out.

   August 4th 2011: Nest #3 in Duck has had an unchanged sink hole for 3 days. Last night was day 54 of incubation. It started to rain so the volunteers put away the infrared cameras and then 84 Loggerhead hatchlings boiled out at high tide. As soon as they got them safely in the sea the second wave came for a total of 117 turtles.

   After its initial hatching on Wednesday, August 3, NEST Volunteers witnessed three more hatchlings that snuck out after all the volunteers left for the night. Their tracks showed that they made it safely to the ocean in spite of a huge crab hole that they barely missed.

Nest#3 Final Total:
139 hatched
3 pipped
6 undeveloped