Category: Birds
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Female Bluebird Looking Pretty in The Rain
Female Bluebird Chillin’ In a Rainstorm. Charleston SC Jan 2026
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Tricolored Heron Preening & Scratching
This tricolored heron enjoyed a sunny day preening and scratching on the dock. Adult, nonbreeding tricolored heron. 45 second itchy scratchy from 1:28 on. Charleston SC Sept 2025
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Female Anhinga Sunning Dock
Female Anhinga’s have a pale gray tan neck and breast. Anhinga’s are also called snake birds because they swim through the water with just their necks showing and body fully submerged. Anhingas have sharp serrated pointed beaks. These serrations are like barbs and all sorts of plastics, trash, and lines get caught in them. Be…
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Immature Red Tailed Hawk Release
This immature red tailed hawk was released in October 2025 after a successful rehabiltation by the Avian Medical Clinic at Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw, SC. https://thecenterforbirdsofprey.org/avian-medical-clinic/ The red tail hawk was found injured and stuck in a fence in Johns Island SC. He was released in the area where he was found.…
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Juvenile Little Blue Heron Eating Lizards
We’re having king tides (high tides) in Charleston, SC in Oct 2025 and it forces this juvenile little blue heron to look for food in the yard. Our yard is mostly native plants and we don’t use herbicide or pesticide so there is a lot of good bugs and amphibians. Juvenile little blue herons are…
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Yellow Crowned Night Heron Swaying & Hunting Crabs
Adult yellow crowned night heron hunting fiddler crabs in the marsh in Charleston SC. August 7, 2025. Yellow crowned night herons like some other birds sway like the wind while hunting and honing in on their prey. I imagine this is some way to mimic the environment that it’s in and become a part of…
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4 Yellow Crowned Night Herons Chillin’
Juvenile yellow crowned night herons are difficult to tell apart from juvenile black crowned night herons. I know these are yellow crowned night herons because we have so many adults on the dock and have never seen a black crowned night heron on the dock. I volunteer with our local avian clinic for shorebirds and…
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Male Osprey vs Live Fish
This male osprey brings in a huge live fish to eat on the dock. Is this a redfish, my fishing people? My guess is that this is a male osprey because of the lack of a brown necklace or banding around the upper chest. Ospreys are raptors or birds of prey. They have hooked beaks…
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Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron Practices Crabbing
These juvenile yellow crowned night herons spends a lot of time on our dock and are just now starting to drink fresh water out of our dock water bowl after watching the elder yellow crowned night herons. S/he is also learning how to crab / hunt / forage and picks at a regurgitated pellet (undigested…