Category: Birds
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Immature Female Baltimore Oriole
Immature Female Baltimore Oriole Drinking Water Charleston SC Nov 2024 This is a female Baltimore Oriole. I am presuming an immature or young female Baltimore oriole because of the lighter yellow color and almost whitish chest breast area. The back / wings are also more drab brown / grey and not as dark as an…
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White Ibis Eating Bugs
Adult white Ibis flock with a couple immature Ibis feeding on bugs / insects in front yard in Charleston SC in Dec 2024. Ibis usually hang out together in flocks or colonies but can also be seen alone or just a couple at time. They love the front yard because it’s loaded with bugs. We…
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Bluebird and Brown Thrasher at The Waterbowl
This young bluebirds chilling at the waterbowl in Charleston SC when a brown thrasher lands and starts running and hopping around looking for beetles and bugs. We have cardboard mulch down in some of these areas making the brown thrasher have to work a little more to get through it and under the pine straw…
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Turkey Vulture Sunning Horaltic Pose
This turkey vulture is sunning with the sun on his back on our dock in Charleston SC in Dec 2024. Adult turkey vultures wingspan is about 6 feet. This position is referred to as the horaltic position. Outstretched feathers can be for thermoregulating (warming up or cooling down), drying feathers or for killing bacteria or…
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Spotted Sandpiper Courtship mating ritual?
These two spotted sandpipers are on our dock in Charleston SC oct 30 2024. They are either two nonbreeding adults (hence – no spots) or two juveniles. It’s hard to tell because of the back light. The wings up and open and tail feathers outstretched makes me think they are flirting and not having a…
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Female Osprey Eating, Pooping, Feaking
This is a female osprey eating in an oak tree next to a Charleston SC marsh. The osprey brings in a half eaten fish, eats it for around 8 minutes and finishes with the fish tail. She poop shoots, cleans and hones her beak (called feaking), and takes off. We know this is a female…
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Female Banded Kingfisher Chilling On A Pole
Female banded kingfisher on a pole in the marsh in Charleston SC. Female kingfishers have a rusty band on their neck and sides. Kingfishers have black beady eyes and legs and a white dog right next to their eyeballs that make their eyes look white, but that’s just an illusion.
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Great Blue Heron “I Ate The Whole Thing”
This Great Blue Heron is fishing in the marshes off of Charleston SC. S/he stabbed a big flat fish (I believe flounder?) and then holds it in it’s mouth for a while and then swallows the fish whole. Look at that throat! The great blue heron maneuvers back and forth swaying trying to get that…
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2 Immature Bluebirds chat at the birdbath
Two sibling immature bluebirds chat at the birdbath. 2024 gave 8 babies from the 1rst and 3rd brood. Unfortunately, the 2nd brood was abandoned when raccoons tried to get them at night. We now have a Noel raccoon guard up.