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Colonial Nesters on and near Seabrook Island
The article below has been updated since its original post in 2017. Current SIB members may experience different colony nests than reported here. Recently we visited the rookery seen on Ocean Winds golf course or at a recent Backyard Birding. That caused us to ask which birds nest in “rookeries” here on Seabrook Island. Quite…
Can birds signal your romantic future?
Happy Valentines Day to (bird) lovers everywhere! Doves, cardinals and lovebirds (a type of parrot) come to mind when people think of birds and love together. But ornithomancy is a practice dating to ancient times when Greeks and Romans used it to interpret their bird sightings and get a glimpse into the future. According to ornithomancy, single…
What’s the Deal with the Capitalizion of Bird Names?
Have you ever noticed when you read the articles from Seabrook Island Birders (SIB), the common names of birds are capitalized? The same is true with nearly every bird book, bird periodical or birding website. However, if you read articles in non-birding publications including print media, these same common names are not capitalized, unless a…
Seabrook Island Birders Best of 2023
As we reflect on 2023, we’d like to highlight a few of our favorite photos from Seabrook Island Birders’ walks and activities, as well as several of our local birds found on Seabrook Island. We hope you enjoy this video! With so many beautiful birds it’s easy to see why we’re captivated by them. We’d like…
Update: SIB made 2023 a “Big Year”!
At the end of 2022, we challenged our members to make 2023 a “Big Year”. A copy of that original post is below. The year was bigger than we anticipated. It was so much fun, we will do it again for 2024. If you have forgotten to share a list from 2023, you can still do…
Suggestions to Improve Birding Skills in 2024
One of my favorite Maine birders is Bob Duchesne. He has taken Flo and me on several day-long birding trips in search of boreal species in Northern Maine as well as a 4-day birding trip to Grand Manan, a Canadian island off the coast of Maine. He’s very knowledgable but also funny! He writes a regular column for…
SIB Explores:
You’ve read numerous “SIB Travel” blogs about birding trips taken by members. SIB members often hear about bird walks, festivals, seminars or tours that may interest others but not an official SIB activity. If you hear of something, let us know by sending the information to SeabrookIslandBirders@gmail.com. You can share, even if you don’t plan…
View Bird Cams
In 2022, we posted the blog below regarding Bird Cams. Since it’s a “dark and stormy day” I allowed myself to get distracted watching Bird Cams. I hope this provides distraction on a rainy day without preventing you from completing all those marvelous chores we all have. Submitted by: Judy Morr View Bald Eagle and Great Horned…
Results of 124th Annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC)
On January 3, 2024, 21 SIB members contributed to the 2023-2024 Sea Island Christmas Bird Count (CBC). We had 5 teams of birders hitting Seabrook Island “hotspots” of Jenkins Point, Palmetto Lake, North Beach, the Lake District, Camp St Christopher, Bohicket Marina, SIPOA/Club horse pasture and maintenance area, Crooked Oaks and Ocean Winds golf courses,…
Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
A member of Seabrook Island Birders shared this interesting article. Birders get nervous when they see landscapes covered in wind turbines. When the wind gets going, their blades can spin at well over 200km per hour. It is easy to imagine careless birds getting chopped to bits. Campaigners often point to the possibility when opposing…
