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Ed Konrad’s Birding Flickr site
It’s been a wonderful spring and summer for birding and photography on Seabrook Island! My Birding Flickr site is updated with Aija’s sightings and my photos from around Seabrook Island over the past few months. You may enjoy seeing the many species and action on North Beach, and in our ponds and marshes…the Piping Plover
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Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) – Getting Ready to Take Flight
(as published in The Seabrooker, January 2016) Do you have a passion for birds and/or an interest in learning more about the incredible variety of birds that inhabit Seabrook Island throughout the year? If so, there is a new organization being created just for you. It’s the Seabrook Island Birders (SIB). You don’t need to be
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SIB First Quarterly Meeting Minutes
Minutes of the First Quarterly Meeting of the Seabrook Island BirdersJanuary 20, 2016 at the Lake House This was the first meeting of those who had expressed an interest in birding on Seabrook Island. Originally 78 persons had signed up and nine (Charley Moore, Nancy Brown, Flo Foley, Marcia Hider, George Haskins, Donna Lawrence, Lyn
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Create a Logo for SIB
Hello Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) We hope you enjoyed our first meeting on January 20th, are finding the SIB website (Seabrookislandbirders.org) and blog informative and are following SIB news and activities on the SIB Facebook page. As you are all aware, a logo is extremely important to any organization or business and we would like to ask our members
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Bird Sightings on Seabrook Island – Week Ending March 23, 2016
SIB will publish this regular blog post to report interesting or unusual bird sightings on Seabrook Island. In the past week, we received these pictures and comments from one of our members and we’d like to share it with you. As you will notice, spring has arrived! Name: Glen CoxDate & Time of Sighting: 3/23/2016Name of Bird Species: OspreyNumber
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Help Needed for Audubon Int’l Certification Bird Count
As many of you likely know, the golf courses on Seabrook Island were the first in South Carolina to be certified in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf program. One of the factors considered was the diversification of the local bird species. On Thursday, April 28th, a team of birders will be canvassing those courses
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Welcome to the New Arrivals!
Like many of us, one of the reasons Ed and Aija Konrad love Seabrook Island is the diversity of nature that abounds here. On Thursday, April 21, 2016, at 12:30pm they decided to bird along Jenkins Point and found the Great Egret rookery at the first pond on the left as you drive in was bustling with activity!
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Annual Audubon International Bird Count Results
(Article Submitted by: George Haskins, Survey Coordinator & Photos Submitted by: Charley Moore) The annual survey of bird species on or adjacent to the Seabrook Island golf courses was conducted on April 28, 2016, by a team of 13 persons. The ground rules call for counting those seen or heard from the golf courses themselves. A
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A Message from Dana Beach and the Coastal Conservation League
The miracle of the red knot. The drama of nature in the comfort of your home. Conservation in the cause of economic development. We hope you enjoy the information below and take time to learn more about our special migrant bird the Red Knot, view the Pelicam of Crab Bank and read more about various initiatives
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Birding by Ear … Who am I???
As we talk with many SIB members, birding by ear can be one of the most challenging and frustrating areas for new birders. Yet getting to know one bird’s call/song can be exciting to know the bird is nearby even if you can’t see it! Sunday we will publish our weekly “Bird of the Week,” but we decided we