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| First Year Male Orchard Oriole |
The SCDNR Birding by Trailer Series continues to Roll Strong, and the Saturday May 21 outing took place in cloudy and comfortable weather. Bess Kellett greeted everyone with her clipboard checklist of registered attendees, and she drove the pick up truck that towed the trailer around the driving tour at this property.
The dove field stop yielded a ground dove sighting, and that was a Life Bird for several visitors to the Lowcountry. Painted buntings, bluebirds and kingbirds were a few of the other birds in this open agricultural field. The next stop by the beach kiosk yielded a First year Male Orchard Oriole which was a first for this lifelong birder. The distinctive black patch on the throat was a clear giveaway of this birds identity, and Bess shared that an Orchard Oriole nest was known to be in that area.
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| Birding Group working to identify birds |
Some nondescript birds were sighted this day including the female red-winged blackbird and the juvenile brown-headed cowbird, and this is when the collective experience in any group is valuable, because getting stumped on a birding identification is frustrating.
To view past blog entries on Birding Trips click on 2022 Nemours / Spring - 2022 Harbor Island / Spring - 2022 Audubon Silver Bluff / Spring - 2022 Phinizy Swamp / Spring - 2022 Oldfield / Spring - 2022 Widgeon Point / Winter Birding - 2022 Parris Island / Winter Birding - 2021 Palmetto Bluff / Christmas Count - 2021 Botany Bay WMA / Winter
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| Juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird |
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| Female Red-winged Blackbird |
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