WINTER VISITORS TO OUR YARD: RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS

Ruby-crowned Kinglet With Full View Of Ruby Crown

Pure energy packed into a tiny package. Ruby-crowned Kinglets are short-haul migrant winter visitors to our neighborhood. They only migrate to and from the U.S.’s south and northern Mexico to the upper regions of Canada. This is even more remarkable when you think about just how tiny they are: 3.5-4.3 in (9-11 cm), 0.2-0.3 oz […]

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BIRDING THE HISTORIC AND STORIED LOWCOUNTRY

Wood Stork Wading and Reflection

The low country of Georgia and South Carolina is the geographic area of coastline and barrier islands where the coastal plain meets the Atlantic Ocean. It is indeed low. In many places ground is at sea level or just below. Making it a land of bottomland swamps, broad river deltas, tidal creeks, and estuarine marshes. […]

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