New Team Blue volunteer Peter Alexander arrived on Saturday, and found himself launched straight into a long weekend of nest excavations in the QE II Botanic Park. Local volunteers swelled the ranks, so we had a small army of determined diggers, and over the last three days have boosted the egg count in the incubators to 54. Even the 100 person-hour marathon dig for Deborah’s eggs wasn’t enough to put them off – hats off to Kirstyn Werner, Alaister Key, Sarah Agnolin, Mike Naugle, Rachel Hamilton, Talisa Hughes and Theo Morgan – not to mention IRCF’s John Binns who headed home today after a week helping us out and photodocumenting the work in progress.

Meanwhile Yellow-Blue and Triple Orange have also nested, so the digging will continue today…