What's That Shadow?

  • Turkey Vulture Feaking After Eating

    Turkey Vulture Feaking After Eating

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    This 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…

  • First 3 Raccoon Kits / Cubs / Babies 2025

    First 3 Raccoon Kits / Cubs / Babies 2025

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    This 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…

  • Breeding Plumage Laughing Seagulls & Yellow Crowned Night Heron

    Breeding Plumage Laughing Seagulls & Yellow Crowned Night Heron

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    This 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.…

  • Two Male Opossums territory Bites

    Two Male Opossums territory Bites

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    We were sitting on the porch when we saw a raccoon and a possum meetup near the waterbowl. When we zoomed in, we saw that there were also two male opossums getting ready to fight or test the boundaries of who was the territorial male. We started clapping to break them apart. The one on…

  • Osprey Eats Fish On Dock

    Osprey Eats Fish On Dock

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    This male osprey caught a small fish and brought it to our dock to eat. It took about 16 minutes from start to finish. The osprey feaks (cleans, hones it’s beak), shakes, poops and takes off, pretty classic bird behavior. Ospreys are raptors with hooked beaks and talons. They generally dive feet first into water…

  • Raccoon Wrestle Mania

    Raccoon Wrestle Mania

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    These two raccoons are having a time. Mating season is mostly done and the raccoons are all eating well in the marsh. It seems like they have more time to play and romp around and be rascals. Charleston SC, May 2025

  • Immature White Ibis Chilling In Oak

    Immature White Ibis Chilling In Oak

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    May 2025 Charleston SC Immature White Ibis hanging out at the top of an oak tree off the marsh in Charleston SC. His / her buddies are all around up there. Ibis are social birds and forage in groups in wetland areas and lawns.

  • Wet Possum and Raccoon Grab A Drink

    Wet Possum and Raccoon Grab A Drink

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    Possums and raccoons are around each other all the time. The raccoons don’t seem to mind but the possums generally don’t like all the raccoon drama :). We had a rainstorm that day, so maybe the opossum hadn’t dried off yet or perhaps he/she spent a little time in the marsh. Charleston SC March 2025

  • 2 Raccoons Playing & Flirting

    2 Raccoons Playing & Flirting

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    These two raccoons hang out together all the time. One gets over stimulated sometimes and shakes his head but there is nothing wrong with him. There are two different camera views of the same interaction. One with our zoomable camera and one with the stationary water bowl camera that is covered in palm boots. Charleston,…