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A listener near Charleston spots two barred owls - one adult and one fledgling...

This common SC snake is not poisonous.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny”. He is based in Greenville, S.C.

In case you hadn’t heard, our state recently picked up its third PGA tour event for this year. Not bad for a state that normally only has one. When the 2021 RBC Canadian Open was canceled due to the pandemic, a new event emerged to take its place: the inaugural Palmetto Championship coming June 7-13 to the Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, South Carolina.Mike Switzer interviews Duane Parrish, director of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.

George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short stories, You Want More, some of his favorite stories, and his life as a writer.

Team MIG spent a wonderful day at the Audubon Center Beidler Forest. On the one and three-quarter mile long boardwalk, you may sometimes find a cluster of photographers with lenses all focused on a small cavity in a bald cypress knee, hoping to get pictures of Prothonotary warbler parents flying in and out with insects for their babies. Sometimes called swamp canaries, these birds are one of the only two warblers that nest in holes in dead wood, in Beidler most often a hole in a cypress knee slightly above water. In other parts of the state and country they nest in swamps, flooded bottomlands, or other places near water, mostly in dead tree holes sometimes first excavated by other birds, although they will use provided nesting boxes. Their breeding grounds extend to the Mississippi and as far north as Wisconsin.

Prothonotary warblers have strong site fidelity. Although they have a large nesting area in the US, individual birds return to the place of their birth.

The Prothonotary warbler is sometimes called the swamp canary. These small birds are a brilliant yellow with bluish-grey green wings and a black eye that’s very striking on the yellow head. Males are a more intense yellow than females.

What is so rare as a day in June? A broad-headed skink is not rare, but, it is a great sight on a day in June.