{"id":8166,"date":"2011-10-03T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2011-12-28T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T19:49:00","slug":"roseate-spoonbills-by-sanibel-causeway-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/roseate-spoonbills-by-sanibel-causeway-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseate Spoonbills at Sanibel Causeway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It’s always a thrill to spot a ROSEATE SPOONBILL with its bright pink feathers and its aptly named bill that looks like a wooden kitchen spoon.<\/p>\n

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

As soon as we drive over the Sanibel causeway at low tide to get to the Fort Myers side,\u00a0we look to the water on the right to see if the ROSEATE SPOONBILLS are feeding. They were there this past weekend! I took a few minutes to capture them with my camera lens.<\/p>\n

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

I even caught them phooning<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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

They feed by swinging their head back and forth sweeping their bill in the water feeling for\u00a0fish, insects, crustaceans and a few water plants. When they feel the right food, they snap it up.<\/p>\n

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

You can see it for yourself! I made a video for you to see these beautiful ROSEATE SPOONBILLS and the IBIS birds they hang out with.<\/p>\n

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It’s always a thrill to spot a ROSEATE SPOONBILL with its bright pink feathers and its aptly named bill that looks like a wooden kitchen spoon. As soon as we drive over the Sanibel causeway at low tide to get to the Fort Myers side,\u00a0we look to the water on the right to see if […]<\/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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[499,461,1405],"tags":[1408,1407,1406],"class_list":["post-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibis","category-roseate-spoonbill","category-rosete-spoonbill-video","tag-roseate-spoonbill-food","tag-sanibel-causeway-low-tide","tag-sanibel-roseate-spoonbill","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-27I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166","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=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8182,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}