BACKYARD BIRD ADVENTURES

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  • Home
  • Our Birds!
    • Blackbird, Red-Winged 🆕
    • Bluebird, Eastern
    • Bunting, Painted
    • Cardinal, Northern
    • Catbird, Gray 🆕
    • Chickadee, Carolina
    • Cowbirds, Brown-Headed (Sigh....☹)
    • Crows (All)
    • Doves, Mourning
    • Eagle, Bald
    • Finch, House
    • Flicker, Northern
    • Flycatcher, Great-Crested
    • Geese, Canadian
    • Goldfinch, American
    • Gnatcatcher, Blue-Gray
    • Grackles (All)
    • Gulls. (All)
    • Hawk, Cooper's
    • Hawk, Red-Shouldered
    • Hawk, Red-Tailed
    • Hawk, Sharp-Shinned
    • Hummingbird, Ruby-Throated
    • Jay, Blue
    • Junco, Dark-Eyed
    • Kingbird, Eastern
    • Kinglet, Ruby-crowned
    • Kite, Mississippi 🆕
    • Kite, Swallow-Tailed 🆕
    • Mockingbird, Northern
    • Nuthatch, Brown-Headed
    • Nuthatch, White-breasted 🆕
    • Oriole, Baltimore, Not the team)
    • Oriole, Orchard 🆕
    • Osprey
    • Robin, American
    • Sapsucker, Yellow-Bellied
    • Starling, European
    • Sparrow, Chipping
    • Sparrow, House
    • Sparrow, White-throated
    • Stork, Wood
    • Titmouse, Tufted
    • Thrasher, Brown
    • Towhee, Eastern
    • Vultures, (All Types)
    • Warbler, Black and White
    • Warbler, Northern Parula
    • Warbler, Orange-crowned
    • Warbler, Pine
    • Warbler, Yellow-Rumped
    • Warbler, Yellow-Throated
    • Waxwing, Cedar
    • Woodpecker, Downy
    • Woodpecker, Pileated🆕
    • Woodpecker, Red-Bellied
    • Woodpecker Red-Headed
    • Wren, Carolina (South Carolina State Bird)
  • Getting Started Backyard Birdwatching
  • Bird Identification
  • Favorite Bird Stuff
  • News from the Nest
  • Birds Behaving Badly
  • Fantastic Fledges
  • Birding Field Trips
    • Egret Rookery in Socastee
    • Huntington Beach State Park, SC
    • Myrtle Beach State Park, SC
    • Heritage Shores Nature Preserve, NMB, SC
    • Kiawah River, Charleston, SC
    • Murrells Inlet, SC
    • Awendaw, SC Conservation Center & Center for Birds of Prey
    • Nicaragua Trip
    • Kiawah Island, SC
    • Topsail Island, NC
    • Caribbean and South Pacific
    • Briarcliff Acres, North Myrtle Beach, SC
    • Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, Conway, SC
    • Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve, Myrtle Beach, SC
    • Everglades, Florida
    • Central Park, NY
  • About Us
  • FIND THE BIRD
  • UFFO
  • Feeder Cam Recordings
  • Why Do Birds Matter?

EGRET ROOKERY
SOCASTEE, SC

This Rookery is only accessible via Waccatee Zoo and has existed long before the zoo was put in that location.  The Egrets, along with some Wood Storks, Great Herons, and Anhingas return each year. 
 April 2020: (see farther down for previous year)

Due to the pictures being taken by CJ, Abby, and Tamara with three different cameras at the same visit, you may notice some redundancy of subjects with slightly different variations in angles etc.
2019 Birding "Field Trip," to Waccatee Zoo,
Great Egret Hatchery
​(naturally existing before the zoo), Socastee, South Carolina. 
We went to see the Great Egrets nesting and later their nestlings.  We also took pictures of Great Blue Herons, Wood Storks, Anhingas, and on the second trip an Osprey. 
Trip #2
Trip #1 for Egret Nesting (No hatchlings yet)

 ALL PICTURES ON THIS SITE WERE TAKEN ONLY BY ABBY, CJ OR ME.  WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PHOTOS ON THE BIRDING FIELD TRIP PAGE, ALL PICTURES HAVE ALL BEEN TAKEN IN OUR URBAN BACKYARD/TREES, OR IN THE SKY AND TREES ABOVE OUR HOUSE/NEIGHBORHOOD FROM 2018 TO THE PRESENT.  WE ARE USUALLY BIRDING EVERYDAY BUT ARE ALSO USUALLY BEHIND UPLOADING PICTURES.

 IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC PICTURE PLEASE EMAIL US.   COGENTLY, IF WE HAVE ERRONEOUSLY MISLABELED A PICTURE PLEASE BRING IT TO OUR ATTENTION.