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If the nest is in a good location, the eggs are re-covered.  If the nest is in danger from being washed over by the tide, or in heavy human traffic areas, or has been raided ( by raccoons) it is relocated.  

When the Nesting Patrol must relocate a nest, the eggs must be carefully transported in a bucket full of moist sand.

A replica of the nest is dug.  This new nest resembles the "real" nest - it is shaped like an upside-down light bulb.

The eggs are carefully placed in the new nest and covered with sand.

If a nest is in a location where raccoons have raided nests in the past,  it is covered by a 4’ x 4’ screen with openings that still allow the hatchlings to escape from the nest and into the sea!

   

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