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SIB Member Profile: Cat & Charles Russo
Visitors to the Russo home are enthusiastically greeted by Tasha, a Cairn terrier. Her owners Cat and Charles moved to the lake district full-time two years ago. They had vacationed on Fripp and Jekyll Islands, but found them too remote for year-round living. Cat was acquainted with Johns Island, having visited Kiawah as a child,…
SIB Wants Your Feedback!
The Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) is entering its third year of operation. The group’s mission is “watching, learning and protecting” the incredible variety of birds that inhabit SI throughout the year. Your responses to the survey below will help us better serve you in fulfilling this mission. The questions will help determine what programs and…
Birding in Rochester, NY
Believe it or not, Rochester, NY and Seabrook Island, SC are similarly located ……….. from a birder’s viewpoint. The Genesee River flows North through the center of the City west of us and extensive creek system feeds Irondequcit Bay — seen from our porch — immediately to the east. Both of these water bodies feed…
Ask SIB – Why are there so many Killdeer this winter?
Question: A few of us have noticed numerous active Killdeer across the island. In fields, on the golf courses and along the side of the road. We don’t remember seeing so many in past years. Any explanation? Answer from Judy Morr & David Gardiner: As we were doing the Audubon Christmas Bird count last week,…
Watch: Wild About Painted Buntings
Wild About is a monthly video series produced by the Town of Kiawah, where each episode will focus on a particular element of nature, wildlife or the environment from life on Kiawah Island. This month features one of the special birds of the Lowcountry, the Painted Bunting. Learn how the biologists on Kiawah band these beautiful…
SIB Flies into 3rd Year with The Center of Birds of Prey
’Twas a four-course celebration on this second anniversary of the initial Seabrook Island Birders members’ meeting in 2016. There was a migration (birding term) of SIBers and guests into The Lake House for a sold out event with 140 attendees — the first of five SIB evening programs scheduled for 2018. The first course attraction…
The Image Hunter: On the Trail of John James Audubon
Some of you “bird nerds” are familiar with the “Carolina Bird List Serve,” a way birders in SC and NC share information about birding. The information below was shared today by Carl Miller of Charleston, and it is such a great story we wanted to share it with you! For those who love birding AND art,…
Adaptability of “SIBlings”
Any student of nature understands the concept of adaptation. So, when the scheduled Long-billed Curlew trip scheduled for a cool, rainy Sunday was changed to a cold, cloudy Saturday (February 3, 2018), the group of a dozen or more SIBlings (my name for this group of fun and dedicated people) rolled with it. Carpools were…
SIB Evening Program: “A Pelican Briefing”
We interrupt the regularly scheduled emails about Hurricane Florence to invite you to SIB’s next evening program, “A Pelican Briefing”, presented by Dr. Patrick Jodice, on Thursday, September 27, 2018! We hope by then, life after Florence will have returned to normal and you will enjoy this exciting discussion about our Brown Pelicans and several…
Downy Woodpecker
The stillness of the morning is broken by the high pitched, yet soft whinny of what sounds like a miniature pony. Our smallest woodpecker has an unmistakable vocalization. In my early days of bird watching, I had a difficulty telling the calls of one woodpecker from another. Most woodpeckers have a rapid series of calls…