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Must present ad'. - 2 • Week of March 31 - April 6, 2006 ISLANDER Springtime bring nesting season City Easter Egg Hunt Bunny Sightings Around the Island BY DEE SERAGE CENTURY The Easter Bunny is already hard at work preparing for Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Easter: decorating and hiding eggs, weaving baskets, and eating carrots. ' ~ For years Screech Owls have raised and fledged their young in a nest box nailed up for them in a Gumbo Limbo tree in my landscape for wildlife. The nest box could be seen from the front porch. Below the box, the adult owls bathed in the bird bath at dawn and dusk. Each year meant waiting patiently for fledging time, hoping to witness the chicks learning to fly. One lucky night three young owls began flight train- ing using the porch as a landing strip, gliding down as mom and dad sang their encouragement. Then there was the year a neighbors' cat was caught peering into the nest box. A few intense discussions later and that cat was "housed." Each year brings new owl discoveries including a yel- low rat snake nesting in the box. This beautiful snake was wished for to control palm rats. This years' owl intensive is focused on vocalizations. For the last month the screech owl sat in a cabbage palm Photo courtesy ofSCCF The City of Sanibel will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt A screech owl in its nesting box. on Saturday, April 15th at the Sanibel Historical Village and Museum on 950 Dunlop Road. The event will begin at and trilled its sweet song from dusk to dawn. Just recent- 8:30AM and is open to the public free of charge. The Egg ly the trilling continued off and on during the day. And Hunt is for children between the ages of 2 and 12, who are just when you thought it couldn't get any better, the owl divided into age-appropriate groups for the Hunt. began advertising the nest site by singing inside the Participants need to bring their own basket. box...it echoed very nicely! A special guest appearance will be made by the Easter Since recent hurricanes brought down so many trees Bunny to take pictures with the children and family mem- this is a good year to add nesting boxes to your yard to bers. The eggs will be stuffed with candy and prizes. The support our cavity nesting birds. Easter Bunny's good friends, the Sanibel-Captiva Besides boxes for screech owls you can also put up Community Bank and Mike Alteri, got together to donate boxes for Great Crested Flycatchers who may have special eggs the size of coconuts to the occasion. Find one migrated from as far south as Central America to raise of these unique eggs and redeem it for a chocolate bunny at their young on the islands. Maybe the woodpeckers will trie prize tent. leave your house alone if you put up some nest boxes for Also, on Friday April 14th, the Easter Bunny will be them? going around Sanibel Island getting his last minute sup- The Native Plant Nursery at the Sanibel Captiva plies. Anyone who sights the Easter Bunny on Sanibel that Conservation Foundation has nest boxes for sale and Friday can call in to the Rec Center 472-0345. Be one of the SIX MINUTE WALK TO BEACH instructions on how and where to place them. For more first three callers from that particular sight and be able to 3926 Coquina Drive, Sanibel, FL information on cavity nesting birds please call Dee at the tell what the Easter Bunny is doing there and you will win Conservation Foundation (472-2329). a free chocolate bunny at the City of Sanibel's Easter Egg On Water, Elevated, 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath Hunt the following day. For further information, call the Sanibel Rec Center at Call Owner For Appointment 472-0345. 239-472-8578 ART SHOW * SALE •*-.'• .- * o -r Mkhad A. LMmma fine Art r.:- Tresentiw a. collection of fine American & European paintings V from 1800 tcr the present time. ••! • •••/ Including Hudson River. 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Come early, because sometimes it's Some of the top story tellers on the island standing room only. The date, again, is will be there to tell their Grand Parent Friday, April 7th. Remember, this is the last Stories. It is rumored that Nola Theiss, for- one of the Season. Come join in the fun with mer Mayor of Sanibel will tell a story about all the rest of us fans of Stories for The Lifestyle Line her beloved grandson, Indigo. Especially if Grownups. he does something remarkable before April Call the Sanibel Public library if you 7th. The legendary grandmother, Di Saggau, have any questions: 472-2483 • Mte choose moducts to prelect your home and | will have a story to tell, maybe more than enhance your SWFl Lifestyle • one, because, mathematically, she has more • fflv convenient motorized Rod Shutters create than one grand kid. 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