Horseshoe crabs can lay between 60,000 to 120,000 eggs. These eggs are laid in the sand or mud in batches of a few thousand at a time, and take 2 weeks to hatch. Many are eaten by seabirds while incubating.
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Finally caught a chicken in one of the nesting boxes! I took the picture of Mrs. Bucket and went inside to wait, expecting to go back and get a picture of her egg before collecting it, but apparently Mrs. Bucket wasn’t the only busy hen this morning (view from inside and then outside the nesting box). I’m pretty sure the darker blue egg is hers, because it was the warmest. The lighter one must be from Lady Elaine, and I haven’t a clue who laid the pinkish-brown one.
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