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House Finch Eye Disease
This year I decided to participate in Project FeederWatch. This citizen science program is the perfect outlet for someone who enjoys watching the birds at her backyard feeders, but doesn’t want to bore all her friends and family with a list of birds she has attracted. Project FeederWatch actually wants your data! With their partner…
Bath Time
On January 28, 2020, we were delighted to see Eastern Bluebirds checking out our nest boxes and drinking from our birdbaths along with many Cedar Waxwings in our backyard on Deer Run Drive, Seabrook Island. JANICE WATSON-SHADA If you have bird encounters you would like to share with Seabrook Island Birders, go to Report a…
Ask SIB … What can I do for Starling invasion?
We often receive questions about birds from our members and residents of Seabrook Island. This week, Carl recently sent us this question: Starlings have taken over my feeders. They discovered it about a month ago. Now they arrive each morning and occupy every feeding slot for hours, consuming lots of birdseed and depriving the finches,…
Spring – an important time for Seabrook shorebirds!
Migrating Red Knots will be arriving. Piping Plovers will head north to breed. Least Terns, Wilson’s Plovers, and other shorebirds will mate and possibly nest on North Beach. It’s a time to enjoy their splendors, understand their challenges, and be extra careful when on the beach – give them space to rest, feed, and nest,…
Banded Black Skimmers on North Beach
Janet Thibault, our good friend and partner from SCDNR, was on North Beach Wednesday February 12, 2020, and gave us a heads up on the banded Black Skimmers she had just seen at the point. We quickly headed down the beach to check them out, rarely having seen a banded skimmer. It was a different…
USC Students to Study Red Knots on Seabrook and Kiawah Beaches
Seabrook and Kiawah Islands will be hosting University of South Carolina (USC) graduate and undergraduate students for the next few months. These students are studying the Red Knots as they use our beaches as a stopover during their long spring migration. The students will be on the beach two days weekly from March through May,…
Social Distancing Entertainment – Bird Games
Although we shared this information last November, we thought it might be appropriate to distribute again for anyone looking to entertain young people or even themselves! Here are three games that we thought all of you might enjoy to test your bird knowledge! In the first game called “Bill Me,” you have to combine two…
Escape to Nature from Home with BirdNote
During this time of social distancing, stay connected to nature through BirdNote! The first season of Sound Escapes is a great place to start. Join Ashley Ahearn and acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton for sonic adventures in some of the most wild and sound-rich places in the world. (Hint: if you’d like to hear the sounds of the Indigo Bunting, don’t miss Land Between…
Birding with Lewis & Clark
In these stressful times when we’re staying close to home, how about a trip across the US? This week Ed posted our 2019 birding trips on his Flickr site. A memorable trip was our month-long driving tour in July 2019 from Atlanta to the Oregon coast, a combination of birding and following the Lewis and…
Spring on Seabrook Island
Have you noticed it has been a little noisy outside lately? No, I don’t mean from your neighbor blowing the Live Oak leaves off his driveway. From the moment it begins to brighten in the morning until the sun sets the birds are singing and loudly calling to one another. What you are hearing are…