{"id":990122,"date":"2016-06-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=f084aac4f37202dfbdef9589ea347c1b"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:57:16","slug":"sanibel-gardens-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sanibel-gardens-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel Gardens Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 12 June 2016, wildlife blogger France Paulsen observed a Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Sanibel Gardens Preserve just north of the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge Bailey Tract on Sanibel Island.<\/p>\n

Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a rare Code 3 vagrant in the ABA area. The species’ breeding range is in Central and South America. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Sanibel Gardens Preserve proved to be a one day wonder which is generally the case for sightings of this species in the United States.<\/p>\n

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The Anhinga above (image 1) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Mottled Duck above (image 2) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Northern Cardinal above (image 3) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Pileated Woodpecker above (image 4) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Pileated Woodpecker above (image 5) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Pileated Woodpecker above (image 6) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Pileated Woodpecker above (image 7) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Great Egret above (image 8) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The juvenile Fish Crow above (image 9) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Fish Crow with juvenile above (image 10) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Fish Crow with juvenile above (image 11) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The White Ibis above (image 12) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The juvenile Little Blue Heron with Snowy Egret above (image 13) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

While it has been my intention to explore the 265 acre Sanibel Gardens Preserve extensively, my first visit on 13 June was primarily with hopes of finding the flycatcher. I made my observations primarily at the cell phone tower where France had reported the vagrant the previous day. I stayed until thunder could be heard.<\/p>\n

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The Tricolored Heron above (image 14) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Magnificent Frigatebird above (image 15) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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The Swallow-tailed Kite above (image 16) was photographed at Sanibel Gardens Preserve in June 2016.<\/p>\n

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On 12 June 2016, wildlife blogger France Paulsen observed a Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Sanibel Gardens Preserve just north of the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge Bailey Tract on Sanibel Island. Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a rare Code 3 vagrant in the ABA area. The species’ breeding range is in Central and South America. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1912,"featured_media":2196563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6RbZ7KFdH0k\/V2PHUPoXRCI\/AAAAAAAAzmY\/wbmXRtqR40wbvJ-CB3qTrOZ71DQXstxtwCLcB\/s1600\/7098.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8066,750,1666,984,1050,1691,161,1116],"class_list":["post-990122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-frigatebird","tag-great-egret","tag-little-blue-heron","tag-magnificent-frigatebird","tag-pileated-woodpecker","tag-snowy-egret","tag-swallow-tailed-kite","tag-tricolored-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}