Wednesday, May 05, 2004

The full moon was beautiful! I will try to find the time today to post a few images.

We were lucky to find one leatherback last night. Sedna was spotted just as she was starting to dig an egg chamber at 12:30am. Sedna at first glance, seems like a perfect leatherback with no cuts or scratches at all. But, we found what appears to be a fishhook embedded in her right front shoulder. Leatherbacks encounter commercial fishing gear often and she may have come in contact with a longline boat sometime in her past. We are going to try to get our veterinarian out to check her out the next time she is nesting.
The loggerheads are starting to nest in decent numbers now. I think there were about 15 crawls in our survey area this morning. I had a good time watching the speckled swimming crabs this morning. They appear to be releasing eggs at the waterline. There were LOTS of them!

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