Call 1-888-LIMULUS

That’s what the round white tag said.
And I did.

Islanders can help work with the US Fish and Wildlife Service by reporting tagged Horse Shoe crab or “Limulus polyphemus”.

By filling out an online data sheet I will soon find out where # 287680 was originally released.

Only four out of five species of Horse shoe crabs are still living today. This number is dropping because of pollution, loss of habitat and over harvesting.

That’s this January’s morning in a nutshell…and speaking of nutshells, poked a camera in an old tree cavity and from the looks of its cache, Squirrels on Island are doing just fine this winter!