{"id":19667,"date":"2014-06-05T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=19667"},"modified":"2014-06-05T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:35:51","slug":"wild-signs-of-summer-on-sanibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/wild-signs-of-summer-on-sanibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Signs Of Summer On Sanibel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Signs of summer have been showing up early on the islands lately. The late afternoon billowy\u00a0clouds have been rolling in on the horizon causing\u00a0afternoon showers and gorgeous sunsets. I finally made it back to Bowman’s Beach the other evening\u00a0to watch the sky show at sunset and to see what types of shells have been washing upon that shore.<\/p>\n

\"SUNSET<\/a><\/p>\n

I mostly found the common bivalves, but I was happy enough with collecting a WORM in a BUTTERCUP topped with an OLIVE and a pinch of NUTMEG.<\/p>\n

\"nutmeg<\/a><\/p>\n

Summer might be right around the corner, but the animals on the island know it’s still Spring. It’s been so much fun watching the wildlife in the last few weeks now that the island isn’t as busy. My friend Diane has been watching a family\u00a0of NIGHT HERONS nest in her back yard so I had to go pay them a visit. Oh My!\u00a0There are\u00a0three young chicks in the nest with the Mamma.\u00a0So sweet!<\/p>\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/p>\n

Clark and I watch this ALLIGATOR cross the road right in front of us in our car last week. Yikes! It’s still mating season for them so he was moving pretty quickly from one pond to another (thank goodness). This was the best photo I could get with such short notice. LOL<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t heard, there have been a few wild COYOTES that are now on Sanibel and Captiva. How did they get here? Dunno… but I did get to see one resting quietly under a fence on Captiva.\u00a0\"captiva<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night by the Sanibel Pier, I couldn’t peel myself away from watching this awesome OSPREY catch and feed on a nice size POMPANO fish. Clark and I watched him eat this fish dinner for maybe 20 minutes all while his family screeched and yelled at him to bring fish dinner back to the nest only 20 yards away.<\/p>\n

\"osprey<\/a><\/p>\n

As we started to walk away from the OSPREY show, a Mother DOLPHIN and her baby splashed out of the water next to the pier then a MANATEE swam by. Magical. Since the wildlife was the life of the party last night, the only shell I collected to bring home was this BABY’S EAR.<\/p>\n

\"babys<\/a><\/p>\n

That one shell was well worth an evening’s walk on the beach to witness more wild wonders of life on Sanibel.<\/p>\n

\"sanibel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join us on tomorrow for an iLoveShelling Cruise to Cayo Costa with Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a>! Call 239-472-5300<\/p>\n

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Signs of summer have been showing up early on the islands lately. The late afternoon billowy\u00a0clouds have been rolling in on the horizon causing\u00a0afternoon showers and gorgeous sunsets. I finally made it back to Bowman’s Beach the other evening\u00a0to watch the sky show at sunset and to see what types of shells have been washing […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1460,144,1886,29,1887,1873,449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alligator","category-babys-ear","category-sanibel-coyote-captiva-florida","category-lighthouse","category-night-heron","category-osprey","category-sunsets","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-57d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19667","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=19667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19683,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19667\/revisions\/19683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}