It’s been hard to keep up with all our recent activity so I am doing a batch update again.
Here are some highlights and details can be found on the table below.
- Nests #1-16 have all emerged.
- Nests #18, 20, 25, and 28 have also emerged. Those in-between are anticipated soon.
- We have had two dud nests (all eggs were found with no development). One was our Kemp’s Ridley nest. We look forward to seeing if her second nest has success.
- Four nests so far have seen leucistic hatchlings (lacking pigmentation and often accompanied with other developmental malformations).
- We broke our record for shortest incubation. Nest #25 had a sink hole and then emergence on Day 47. That’s about the fastest a nest is physically capable of developing!
| Nest # | Town | Emerged | Incubation | Total Eggs |
Hatching Success |
| #01 | Duck – Sanderling #8 – Vireo Way | 8/1 | 73 | 95 | 71% |
| #02 | Nags Head – Bladen St. | 8/8 | 68 | 70 | 91% |
| #03 | Nags Head – Bladen St. | 8/12 | 68 | 42 | 86% |
| #04 | Nags Head – Glidden St. | None | No hatching | 0% | |
| #05 | Nags Head – Forest St. access | 8/10 | 63 | 99 | 77% |
| #06 | Corolla – Corolla Light access #4 | 8/13 | 63 | 138 | 17% |
| #07 | Corolla – Whalehead – Sailfish Dr. | 8/15 | 64 | 122 | 94% |
| #08 | Corolla – Whalehead – Mackeral St. | 8/12 | 61 | 126 | 34% |
| #09 | Southern Shores – Chicahauk Trail | 8/8 | 56 | 96 | 97% |
| #10 | Duck/Corolla Border | 8/10 | 57 | 75 | 77% |
| #11 | Carova – MP 23.4 | 8/13 | 55 | 106 | 94% |
| #12 | Kitty Hawk – Byrd St. | 8/14 | 55 | 90 | 79% |
| #13 | S. Nags Head – Seagull Ct. | 8/19 | 59 | 75 | 93% |
| #14 | Corolla – Pine Island – Cottage Cove | None | No hatching | 125 | 0% |
| #15 | Nags Head – Sea Holly Ct. | 8/24 | 59 | 143 | 90% |
| #16 | Corolla – Spindrift/Ocean Sands A | 8/28 | 61 | ||
| #17 | Corolla | ||||
| #18 | Duck – Sandy Ridge | 8/22 | 52 | 109 | 81% |
| #19 | S. Nags Head | ||||
| #20 | Carova – MP 17 | 8/25 | 52 | 112 | 58% |
| #21 | Corolla | ||||
| #22 | S. Nags Head | ||||
| #23 | Corolla | ||||
| #24 | Nags Head | ||||
| #25 | Duck – Sanderling #8 – Vireo Way | 8/28 | 47 | ||
| #26 | Duck | ||||
| #27 | S. Nags Head | ||||
| #28 | Kitty Hawks – Hawk St. | 8/30 | 48 |