Spring is here and the wildlife is out there. One of the rarest sights on Sanibel is the Florida panther, which was seen last Sunday evening around 6pm in the Jamaica Drive/Tahiti Drive area off Sanibel-Captiva Road. The photos were taken from a bedroom window...
Every so often, you might see some wildlife just looking out the window. Turtles, marsh rabbits, and...cats?
Yes, Southwest Florida (and Sanibel and Captiva) have felines roaming about. Some may very well be domesticated and savvy enough to be outdoors part of the day and...
Sea Turtle Season has wrapped up for 2020, and it has been an incredible year (when everything else was going wrong)!
From April until Halloween, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) located, marked, and monitored a record number of nests on both Sanibel and Captiva. It...
We’ve talked about the wildlife on the islands and some of our tourists coming to watch our native and migrating birds. But some live on the island year-round and entertain shoppers every day of the week. For over 35 years, Jerry’s Plaza has been home...
It’s not easy being green…and sometimes really big…and an invasive species.
Green iguanas (Iguana iguana…yes, that really is the scientific name), are seen in many parts of southern Florida, including on Sanibel and Captiva. They are native to the southern half of Mexico and the...
This is guest writer Taitum, in Guest Services and this is my second year as a turtle walker. I get up nice and early each Monday morning (form April 15 - October 31) to check my section of beach for turtle crawls, garbage and left...
Guest blogger Matt Spaulding related a wildlife experience over the weekend which involved the assistance of CROW (Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife):
“Sunday night, I was putting out the recyclables and happened to check the rain gauge (We were expecting storms Mother’s Day, but...
The islands haven't been re-opened yet, but we are already getting some our annual NATURAL visitors...
Sea turtle nesting season started on April 15, and already the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation has found its first nest. A 6-foot leatherback turtle was found (a rare occurrence for...
Recently, a video went viral when a local resident taped an alligator acting up in a lagoon, performing a mating call with an unmistakable growl. The thing is, though, it’s a few weeks before the usual mating season of most species in Florida…
It’s been chilly in Southwest Florida recently (well, chilly for US). January and early February tends to have cooler weather, with brief periods when artic winds reach all the way down here. Nighttime temperatures dropped as low as the high 30s on Sanibel last month,...
