Tag: marsh
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Marsh Minnows Jumping
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in FishI believe these are marsh minnows jumping around at low tide in Charleston SC. Infrared camera. June 2025, Charleston SC
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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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Wood Stork Flock / Muster Marsh Foraging
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in BirdsWhat a beautiful sight of a wood stork flock (also called a wood stork muster) foraging and squirreling around together. I’m guessing that there were over one hundred. Wood storks have bald blackish heads with thick stout beaks that turn downward. They are huge birds with a wingspan of 5 plus feet. They have fingered…
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Yellow Crowned Night Heron Horaltic Pose & Gular Fluttering
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in BirdsThis adult yellow crowned night heron is thermoregulating in the horaltic position. This position helps birds cool down in hot weather and/or warm up or dry off in cold weather if the sun is shining. It also helps bake or get any mites moving in the feathers and sometimes they preen a bit after this…
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Bald Eagle Missing Lower Jaw (Mandible / Beak) & Black Necrotic Feet
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in BirdsThis adult bald eagle flew into a tree and we were so excited as it had been months since we’ve seen one. Upon focusing in, we saw that it is missing it’s lower beak / mandible / jaw. We then noticed extremely black feet which is not good because raptors need healthy talons and feet…
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Turkey Vulture Feaking After Eating
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in BirdsThis turkey vulture ate a dead stingray in the marsh and comes up to the dock to feak. Feaking is the act of a bird cleaning and or honing it’s beak after eating. In Charleston SC, they have to work with the tides to eat. They can’t eat the things they can’t see or get…
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First 3 Raccoon Kits / Cubs / Babies 2025
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in MammalsThis is the first litter of raccoon babies for our property in June of 2025 in Charleston SC. These kits are at least 8 weeks old as that is when they start moving around with mama. It will be fun to watch them grow this summer and fall. They should stick around with mama for…
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Breeding Plumage Laughing Seagulls & Yellow Crowned Night Heron
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in BirdsThis laughing seagull has his / her breeding colors going. Orange / red bill, darker hooded head, and white crescent shaped incomplete eye rings around the eyes. The laughing gull spits up something, gets kicked off by another laughing gull, and then gets run off by a yellow crowned night heron in it’s breeding plumage.…