{"id":9412,"date":"2012-02-01T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:31:36","slug":"sanibels-blizzard-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/sanibels-blizzard-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel&#8217;s Blizzard of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"bird blizzard sky\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-sky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9418 aligncenter\" title=\"bird blizzard sky\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-sky-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bird blizzard sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-sky-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-sky.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s snowing on Sanibel! Well&#8230;. maybe not that typical cold stuff but it sure looks like a snow blizzard to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"white bird blue blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/white-bird-blue-blizzard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9417 aligncenter\" title=\"white bird blue blizzard\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/white-bird-blue-blizzard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"white bird blue blizzard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/white-bird-blue-blizzard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/white-bird-blue-blizzard.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was like the movie &#8220;The Birds&#8221; for a minute or two while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/sanibel-captiva-shell-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">SS Kelly, her daughter Brianne<\/a><\/strong> and I were walking the beach when billions of birds crowded the beach. Brianne took the first brave steps to clear the path&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brianne birds\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Brianne-birds.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9415 aligncenter\" title=\"Brianne birds\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Brianne-birds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Brianne birds\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Brianne-birds-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Brianne-birds.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t afraid of anybody, they were hanging out on the beach just like we were&#8230;waiting for some shell action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"man on beach with bird blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9414 aligncenter\" title=\"bird blizzard\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bird blizzard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bird-blizzard.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Kelly caught one! LOL No, no, no&#8230; Just kidding. She was getting out her video camera so I took a picture of her. That SANDWICH TERN looks like it is in her hand!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Kelly caught a bird\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kelly-with-birds.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9413 aligncenter\" title=\"Kelly with birds\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kelly-with-birds-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly with birds\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kelly-with-birds-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kelly-with-birds.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Take a look at the very cool video Kelly took of these &#8220;Snow Birds&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l8y29YJ_p3Q&amp;feature=mfu_in_order&amp;list=UL[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sanibel Sandwich Tern\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sanibel-Sandwich-Tern.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9416\" title=\"Sanibel Sandwich Tern\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sanibel-Sandwich-Tern-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanibel Sandwich Tern\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sanibel-Sandwich-Tern-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sanibel-Sandwich-Tern.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snowing on Sanibel! Well&#8230;. maybe not that typical cold stuff but it sure looks like a snow blizzard to me. It was like the movie &#8220;The Birds&#8221; for a minute or two while SS Kelly, her daughter Brianne and I were walking the beach when billions of birds crowded the beach. Brianne took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2015,1382,79],"tags":[1566,1567,1565,1564],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-sandwich-tern","category-seashells","tag-bird-blizzard","tag-bird-video","tag-sandwich-tern-2","tag-sanibel-snow-birds","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","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=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}