Howls From The Marsh
Among the more striking members of our island's wildlife population is a relative newcomer, the coyote. SIPOA's wildlife map shows...
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- Aug 4
The Webs Of Summer
Of the 45,000 species of spiders known globally, an estimated 600 live in South Carolina. In the Lowcountry, these late summer days are...
- Jul 14
Give A Hoot
A SINHG member shared with us this wonderful photograph of a Barred Owl (Strix varia) seen perched in a backyard palm tree on the island...
- Jun 30
Hands Across The Marsh
One of the Lowcountry's defining characteristics is its network of marshes, rising and falling in synchrony with the tides. In an...
- Jun 23
Invasion Alert?
Agriculturalists throughout South Carolina are on the lookout for an invader poised to breach the state's borders: the Spotted Lantern...
- May 26
Little Digger
The little critter seen here is surely one of nature's more inventive productions - the mole cricket. It looks like a standard issue...
- May 12
The Gray Army
They're so ubiquitous that we hardly notice them, and when we do, we may love them or curse them, but our island clan of gray squirrels...
- Mar 31
Blue Bloods
With spring now well underway, our beaches become prime destinations for a host of newly active marine life, from nesting loggerhead...
- Mar 3
Wild On The Beach
With robins bob-bob-bobbin' and pine pollen settling, it must be almost spring; and that means our island's wildlife is becoming more...
- Jan 27
DEERLY SPEAKING
We share our island with many types of wildlife, but none more prevalent than the white-tailed deer population roaming our marshes and...
- Dec 9, 2022
THE CLEANUP CREW
You've probably seen them roosting on rooftops at Freshfields, those hulking black silhouettes of the turkey vulture . Few would consider...
- Nov 18, 2022
THE NATIONAL BIRD
That's what Ben Franklin famously thought the turkey should be. It was, he wrote, "a much more respectable bird" than the eagle, which he...
- Oct 21, 2022
DIAMONDS IN THE MUD
While much attention is justly focused on the endangered, seafaring loggerhead turtle population that nests here every summer, a less...
- Sep 23, 2022
The Spirit Deer
As our island's deer population increases its foraging ahead of leaner winter months, we're more likely to spot them in our backyards or...
- Sep 16, 2022
ON THE WING
This time of year, our Lowcountry skies are graced with flashes of orange, black and yellow as butterflies take to the air on their...
- Sep 2, 2022
BUGS IN LOVE
Love is in the air, at least if you're a Plecia nearctica, commonly known as the love bug, which appears in great numbers this time of...
- Aug 5, 2022
NEW NEIGHBORS
Summer brings new faces and new neighbors to the island, if only for the season, but one recent arrival is here to stay - the armadillo....
- Jul 8, 2022
SONG OF THE SOUTH
Easy trivia question: what's the State Bird of South Carolina? Easy answer: the Carolina Wren, one of the most ubiquitous birds in the...
- Jun 10, 2022
IN THE HEIGHTS
We may hardly notice them because they're so always present, including on the town of Seabrook Island's official seal, but brown...
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