aportoni's photostream

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Completed Green Winged Teal

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The mangrove "islands" form large rookeries for the birds - brown and white pelicans, egrets, ibis, and herons

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More birds

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Next to shells, there is a lot of birds on Sanibel

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The birds walked within a couple feet of you if you stayed still.

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Wild orchids were growing along the shoreline

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This one was swimming from under the bridge

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Red Mangroves growing in the preserve

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White ibis looking for food near the bait fish area

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and more shells

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Sanibel is conseidered the third best place in the world to collect shells behind the Great Barrier reef and the Phillipines.

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Another branch of the banyan near the lab.

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