2024 Stono Preserve / Dixie Plantation - Fall Birding

Spotted Sandpiper sighting

The Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) traveled to Hollywood, S.C. on Oct. 29 for a full day of birding. College of Charleston Faculty member Melissa Hughes welcomed the SIB group at the barn and then led us along the banks of the Stono River. A bald eagle gave us a glimpse as it flew across the spartina marsh, and then not long after walking in the same direction, we found a new eagle nest in a living pine tree with two mature bald eagles sitting in it. Eureka! 

Heading into the woods on a hiking trail we spotted lots of movement from smaller birds and saw the Common yellowthroat, yellow-rump warbler, tufted titmouse, cardinal, mockingbird and more. A plethora of woodpeckers were sighted with the Northern flicker and Yellow-bellied sapsucker letting us know they are back in town for winter. About five spotted sandpipers were spotted at an impoundment, along with two white pelicans, one roseate spoonbill, one little blue heron and two snowy egrets.

Seabrook Island Birders viewing Eagle nest

To view past birding trips from 2024 click on Beidler Forest - Carolina Bird Club -  Earth Day / Kiawah - Spring Island - Southeast Shorebird Festival - Hammock Coast Birding Festival - Huntington Beach State Park - Yawkey Center - Yemassee CBC - Edisto CBC