The 2020 Cahow nesting is off to an early start with the earliest recorded egg having been logged by Jeremy on December 28th in one of the burrows in Nonsuch Island Translocation Colony A where the CahowCams are also located.
The pair from CahowCam burrow #1 having returned early for their November courtship period are also expected to return early to lay their egg. Last year the female returned on the 10th and laid the egg within a few hours, so Jeremy is anticipating that she will return “any night now”.
New Years Land Crab visit.
Followers wishing to witness this should tune in after dusk which is around 6pm Atlantic time to watch CahowCam 1.
The pair in CahowCam 2 were later last year and are expected to be so again, around mid January.
On New Years Eve the CahowCam 1 burrow was paid a visit by a land crab which spent about an hour scavenging before leaving. Land crabs are known to clean out the empty burrows but tend to avoid them when the Cahows are present, as even diminutive Stormy was able to chase them away…