{"id":15806,"date":"2013-07-11T18:35:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=15806"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T18:24:48","slug":"i-spy-seashells-and-beach-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/i-spy-seashells-and-beach-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"I Spy Seashells And Beach Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking at this top picture you will see most of the shells\u00a0I found last evening at\u00a0Fort Myers’\u00a0Bunche Beach<\/strong><\/a>. Can you identify most of them? While you try to figure out each of the shells… Wanna go on a little\u00a0CYBER SHELLING hunt for shells with me? All righty then let’s play a little “I Spy”! Don’t mind the “dirty” bling (a mix of peat and other good stuff that gives food to so many living organisms)… just look for some of those sweet little minis that we all love by clicking on the next image to enlarge…<\/p>\n

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This will give you an idea of how “big” those little gems are by looking at my handful of sweet somethings…<\/p>\n

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As much fun as it was collecting minis, I was tickled pink when Clark showed me his fave find… A ROSEATE SPOONBILL FEATHER.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t see any ROSEATE SPOONBILL birds but we did see immature WHITE IBIS<\/strong><\/a> birds. Ibis juveniles are mostly brown but these guys have started molting out of their plumage becoming adults.<\/p>\n

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Here are four immature WHITE IBISES hanging out with a SNOWY EGRET and a BLUE HERON.<\/p>\n

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It was a bird lovers paradise last night. I even saw the dance of the REDDISH EGRET…<\/p>\n

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Before it got dark, we stopped at Sanibel Lighthouse Beach just in time to catch a beautiful RAINBOW…<\/p>\n

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Samuel, Sheila, Gene, Freida (Cape Coral, FL) and their family in the photo above must have hit\u00a0the pot of gold under\u00a0the rainbow. They found all of these in the water…<\/p>\n

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I found another pot of gold under the rainbow when I met Bill, Jody, Brooke, Brandon, Laura Beth and Gramma Kaye. A golden family of shellers from Alabama.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Okay, did y’all identify most of the shells in the top picture? Errrr….I have to confess, once I got going on my own I.D.s (and put my reader glasses on), I realized that some of these shells weren’t as obvious as I thought. There were a few that I had to look up… like the PAPER BUBBLE and TURRET. I failed my own test! hahaha I hope you do better than I did! I know the photo doesn’t show both sides of the shell, but if you know what #8 is by looking at this photo or you have a better idea if I misidentified anything, please let me know.\u00a0Whoops!\u00a0How embarrassing! LOL (blush, blush)<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 Bruised Nassa<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
2. \u00a0 Paper Bubble – an AMBER GLASSY BUBBLE<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
3. \u00a0 Marginella<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
4. \u00a0 Rice Olive<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
5. \u00a0 Florida Lyonsia<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
6. \u00a0 Wentletrap<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
7. \u00a0 Mortons Egg Cockle<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
8. \u00a0 Ummm. Why did I put that in there? I have no idea what it is. LOL Best guess?<\/div>\n
9. \u00a0 Dark Cerith<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
10. Pitted Murex<\/div>\n
11. Turret<\/div>\n
12. Oh geez- I’m just going with baby whelk so cute!<\/div>\n
13. Sparse Dove<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
14. Rose Petal Tellin<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
15. Antilles Glassy Bubble<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
16. \u00a0Fish Vertebra<\/div>\n
17. West Indian False Cerith<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
18. Mangrove Periwinkle<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

Do you love shelling? Would you like to meet other shellers who love the beach and its treasures just as much as you do? \u00a0Do you want to learn more about shelling in Sanibel and the out island islands? Join us for Shellabaloo 3!<\/p>\n

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Looking at this top picture you will see most of the shells\u00a0I found last evening at\u00a0Fort Myers’\u00a0Bunche Beach. Can you identify most of them? While you try to figure out each of the shells… Wanna go on a little\u00a0CYBER SHELLING hunt for shells with me? All righty then let’s play a little “I Spy”! Don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1788,150,462,774,149,1357,1787,499,1635,522,903,1786,1737,1107,271,442,1354,2008,1356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amber-glass-bubble","category-antilles-glassy-bubble","category-blue-heron","category-bruised-nassa","category-bubble-shell","category-dark-cerith","category-florida-lyonsia-seashells","category-ibis","category-mangrove-periwinkle","category-marginella","category-mortons-egg-cockle","category-pitted-murex-murex","category-reddish-egret","category-rice-olive","category-rose-tellin","category-snowy-egret","category-sparse-dove","category-wentletrap","category-west-indian-false-cerith","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-46W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15806"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15833,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions\/15833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}