The following two photos are the Avocets
     

Below: Buffleheads

Below... An Island of Coots..very impressive

Below: White Pelicans in flight (They were some distance away, but this is the best I could get standing in a wagon)

 

Below: Immature Black Crowned Night Heron
            

 

Below are two photos of the Black Crowned Night Herons
       

Great Egret

Below: First Spring Ibis

 

Below: Northern Harrier
                 

 

Thanks to Richard Matheny for these pictures of the group at NWR on 1/11/10.  See Bird Pictures III for several of the birds that he saw there.

Frank Balogh took these great pictures at the new butterfly enclosure at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn on Monday, 6/29/09: 

Frank also took these pictures at Fish Haul Creek on the same day:

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Horseshoe Crab:

Fifteen Bird Club members met at dawn to drive to Parris Island for a day of birding on March 19^th.  It sprinkled as we drove out the gates, then cleared up and became a beautiful day for birding.  Ron Kinlaw, our Parris Island contact, met us at the gate and escorted us to our first site.  The rest of the day, we drove to 6 other areas throughout the island.  Sand gnats were plentiful, but so were the birds.  In all, we counted 61 different species.  Highlights were the red breasted mergansers in two areas and a group of about 30 black skimmers.  The total list is below.

Rock Dove                                         Cow Bird                                            Red Breasted Merganser                Brown Pelican
Mourning Dove                                  Bluebird                                              Black Bellied Plover                         Blufflehead Duck
Kingfisher                                           Great Blue Heron                              Red Winged Blackbird                      DblCrested Cormorant
Yellow Throated Warbler                  American Crow                                 European Starling                             Willet
Boat Tailed Grackle                          Fish Crow                                          Wilsons Snipe                                    Red Tailed Hawk
Cardinal                                             Chipping Sparrow                             Forsters Tern                                     Blue  Jay
Laughing Gull                                     Brown Thrasher                                 Great Egret                                        Brown Headed Nuthatch
Yellow Rumped Warbler                   Red Bellied Woodpecker                Greater Yellowlegs                            Pileated Woodpecker
Ruby Crowned Kinglet                      Downey Woodpecker                       Mockingbird                                       House Finch
Osprey (10)                                        Eagle (immature & mature) (20)     Blue Gray Gnatcatcher (30)             Cedar Waxwing (40)

Towhee                                              Wood Stork                                       Turkey Vulture (61)
Pine Warbler                                     House Sparrow
Northern Parula                                 Coopers Hawk
Tufted Titmouse                                Red Headed Woodpecker
Carolina Wren                                   Moorhen
Northern Flicker                                 Black Skimmers
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker                Dowitchers
Chickadee                                         Ring Billed Gull
Tricolored Heron                               Snowy Egret
Tree Swallow (50)                             Rudy Turnstone (60)

Thanks to Noah Rosenstein for these pictures from the outing to Bear Island.  Look at what we missed!!!

Some of the Bird Club members who were able to see all of these wonderful birds at Bear Island:

SAVANNAH WILDLIFE OUTING 12/19/08 SIGHTINGS

1.     ANHINGA (FEMALE)

2.     BLACKBIRD, REDWING

3.    COOTS, AMERICAN

4.    CORMORANT, DOUBLED-CRESTED

5.    DOVE, MOURNING

6.    DUCK, RING-NECKED

7.    DUCK, RUDDY

8.    EAGLE (INMATURE)

9.    EGRET, GREAT

10.                      EGRET, SNOWY

11.                     FLICKER, NORTHERN

12.                     GRACKLE, BOAT-TAILED

13.                     GRACKLE, COMMON

14.                     GREBES, PIED-BILLED

15.                     HARRIER, NORTHERN

16.                     HAWK, RED-TAILED

17.                     HERON, GREAT BLUE

18.                     HERON, GREEN

19.                     HERON, LITTLE BLUE

20.                     IBIS, GLOSSY

21.                     IBIS, WHITE

22.                     JAYS, BLUE

23.                     KINGLET, RUBY-CROWNED

24.                     MEADOWLARKS

25.                     MERGANSER, HOODED

26.                     MERLIN

27.                     MOCKING BIRD

28.                     MOORHEN, COMMON

29.                     NIGHT-HERON, BLACK-CROWNED

30.                     OSPREY

31.                     SHOVELER, NORTHERN

32.                     SNIPE, WILSON

33.                      SPARROW, CHIPPING

34.                     SPARROW, SONG

35.                     TEAL, BLUE-WINGED

36.                     VULTURE, TURKEY

37.                     WARBLER, YELLOW-RUMPED

The following report and pictures come from Martha Spencer:

On April 28, 12 SCBirdClub members left early in the morning for the 100 mile trip to Beidler Forest. As we arrived, the birds were in full voice. Beidler Forest is a pristine area put aside and managed by the Audubon Society, with a nice welcome area with a visitors' center, picnic facilities, and a 1.75 mile board walk through the swamp. Our weather was perfect for birding....slightly overcast and cool with little or no bugs. The 28 species of birds we counted for the morning included wonderfully close looks at prothonotary warblers, northern parulas, yellow crowed night herons, summer tanagers, and barred owls. As we left, it began to rain lightly, as if it had been waiting for us to finish.

Prothonotary Warbler - picture from Helen Chatterton:
     

Thanks to Martha Spencer for the following report:

On Tuesday, March 18, 21 SCHH Bird Club members spent over 4 hours at Parris Island on our latest field trip.  The day alternated between windy/cloudy and sunny/pleasant.  Blue Jays, Yellow Throated Warblers and Grackles seemed to be the birds of the day.  We were able to ID 52 different species of birds.  In no particular order, our list included the following:
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>Blue Jay, Mockingbird, American Robin, Red-Winged Blackbird,
>Bluebird, Brown Thrasher, Double-Crested Cormorant, Mourning Dove,
>Rock Dove, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Boat-Tailed Grackle, Horned
>Grebe, Laughing Gull, Ring Billed Gull, Kestrel, Green-Backed Heron,
>Little Blue Heron, Tri-Colored Heron, White Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Ruby
>Crowned Kinglet, Northern Shrike, Common Loon, Osprey, Brown
>Pelican, House Finch, Titmouse, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow,
>European Starling, Towhee, Forster's Tern, Hermit Thrush, Turkey
>Vulture, Pine Warbler, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Yellow-Throated
>Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Red-Bellied Woodpecker,
>Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, Carolina Wren, Chickadee, Cardinal, Cedar
>Waxwing, Red Breasted Merganser, White Breasted Nuthatch, Willet,
>Whimbrell, Short Billed Dowitcher, Brown Headed Nuthatch.

The group reports a great outing to Savannah National Wildlife Refuge:

Thanks to Betty Vance for the group pictures!

Three pictures of meadowlarks...great birding!:

Pictures from Martha and Olvis Spencer.