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Happy Mother’s Day!
As we celebrate our mothers today, we celebrate someone who’s nurturing, protecting, caring and loving. Someone who provides many of the things we need to grow, learn, and navigate our way through life. Bird moms do the same. They build strong nests to raise their families, protect the eggs, feed the babies, teach and encourage
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Thank You For Your Generosity
This past Thursday February 22, 2024 Felicia Sanders, Coastal Bird Program Coordinator for South Carolina DNR presented about the fantastic work that has been done in tracking the migration of Red Knots. This amazing bird, that is federally listed as a threatened species, every year migrates from as far as the southern tip of South
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Welcome Spring and our newly arriving birds
The official first day of Spring 2024 is March 19. Meteorologists recognize the first day of spring on March 1 because meteorological seasons are based on monthly temperatures – March, April and May are the three spring months that precede the three warmest months of the year. Even though Spring is probably a different span
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Signs of an Early Spring?
This has been a strange winter. In South Carolina, we had extreme cold weather for days, and then the temperature would jump to 70 degrees. And let’s not talk about the rain, flooding and “King Tides” we’ve experienced! If you follow us on social media @seabrookislandbirders, you may have seen the photos and videos of
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SIB Kiawah River Birding Adventures
Starting at dawn, the day that daylight saving began, found some of us a little drowsy at first, but the beauty of the Kiawah River site, and the crisp morning air quickly woke us up. We started off at the “bridge” where we saw Great Egrets, Belted Kingfisher, a variety of sparrows and even some
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – wearing the green!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to the Irish by heritage and Irish by heart. Many celebrate by wearing their favorite green wardrobe. In honor of the day, we want to “look” at some of our green feathered friends. Three ducks come to mind…Wood Ducks and Mallards with their green heads and of course Green Winged Teals.
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“Birds at the Beach and Beyond”
Many of Kiawah & Seabrook Island’s awesome shorebirds have been migrating back here to prepare to finish the rest of their journey, or to prepare to nest and raise their young. Spring brings back our birds and is also Easter time! What better time to gift your kids or grandkids with a beautiful book about coastal
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Happy Easter: And a brief look at eggs
Many of us have happy memories of coloring eggs for Easter and then participating in a competitive hunt. My sister’s family still has a family tradition of intricately decorating eggs which the 40+ year old sons then have a competitive egg hunt in the yard. Eggs have been a part of spring celebration since at
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Hints for Feeding Hummingbirds
It’s great to learn something new, especially when it saves you time and effort. Recently I was listening to the podcast Talkin Birds. Mike O’Connor, the owner of Birdwatchers General Store on Cape Cod, contributes weekly in a segment called “Let’s Ask Mike”. A couple weeks ago his topic was on feeding the hummingbirds. I
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SIB participated in Great Backyard Bird Count
Each February, a world-wide birding event is held called the Great Backyard Bird Count. The event encourages people to get out and share their love of birds. As of Tuesday evening, with submissions still coming in, eBird reported 7,769 species reported in almost 285,000 checklists worldwide. SIB members’ checklists are among those numbers. We asked