Tag: Juvenile
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Juvenile Little Blue Heron Eating Lizards
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in BirdsWe’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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4 Yellow Crowned Night Herons Chillin’
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in BirdsJuvenile 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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Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron Practices Crabbing
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in BirdsThese 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…
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Immature Female Baltimore Oriole
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in BirdsImmature 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
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in BirdsAdult 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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2 Immature Bluebirds chat at the birdbath
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in BirdsTwo 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.