{"id":4617,"date":"2015-12-18T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2015-12-18T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:32:42","slug":"baby-gators-new-draw-for-spi-birding-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=4617","title":{"rendered":"Baby Gators New Draw for SPI Birding &#038; Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Special to Los Fresnos News\/Ron Whitlock<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children, shepherded by their moms &amp; dads, with binoculars and cameras secured around their necks, are heading to South Padre Island, Texas, in droves, in search of baby alligators!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right \u2013 baby alligators!<\/p>\n<p>South Padre Island\u2019s newest \u201cMust See Ticket\u201d are the baby alligators, who, as shown in the photo to the left provided by Beverly Welch, like to hitch rides on their momma\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4619\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4619\" class=\"wp-image-4619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/alligator.jpg\" alt=\"Children, shepherded by their moms &amp; dads, with binoculars and cameras secured around their necks, are heading to South Padre Island, Texas, in droves, in search of baby alligators! Yes, you read that right \u2013 baby alligators! South Padre Island\u2019s newest \u201cMust See Ticket\u201d are the baby alligators, who, as shown in the photo to the left provided by Beverly Welch, like to hitch rides on their momma\u2019s back. Visitors in search of such sightings still visit the legendary Sea Turtle, Inc \u201cSea Turtle Rescue\u201d Center right next door to marvel at the most famous turtle in the world, but now they also drop by the Birding &amp; Nature Center too! The juvenile \u201cGators\u201d were hatched from 14 eggs at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, and have suddenly become its major attraction, rather than the birds and fauna that the center is known and renowned for around the world! They have been seen, primarily, around the Alligator Alley pavilion, located on the SPI Birding &amp; Nature Centers\u2019 Boardwalk which serpentines between the center, located at 6801 Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, Texas and the Laguna Madre Bay, which separates the barrier island from its mainland neighbor, Port Isabel, Texas!\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/alligator.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/alligator-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/alligator-405x241.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hitchin\u2019 a ride \u2013 Baby alligators bringing new visitors SPI\u2019s Birding &amp; Nature Center. Photo: Beverly Welch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Visitors in search of such sightings still visit the legendary Sea Turtle, Inc \u201cSea Turtle Rescue\u201d Center right next door to marvel at the most famous turtle in the world, but now they also drop by the Birding &amp; Nature Center too!<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile \u201cGators\u201d were hatched from 14 eggs at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, and have suddenly become its major attraction, rather than the birds and fauna that the center is known and renowned for around the world!<\/p>\n<p>They have been seen, primarily, around the Alligator Alley pavilion, located on the SPI Birding &amp; Nature Centers\u2019 Boardwalk which serpentines between the center, located at 6801 Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, Texas and the Laguna Madre Bay, which separates the barrier island from its mainland neighbor, Port Isabel, Texas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Special to Los Fresnos News\/Ron Whitlock Children, shepherded by their moms &amp; dads, with binoculars and cameras secured around their necks, are heading to South Padre Island, Texas, in droves, in search of baby alligators! Yes, you read that right \u2013 baby alligators! South Padre Island\u2019s newest \u201cMust See Ticket\u201d are the baby alligators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}