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Winter birds are visiting South Carolina. Among them are dark-eyed juncos.

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

Seaside or beach goldenrod, Solidago sempervirens., grows up to six feet and has larger flower heads than other goldenrods making it quite attractive.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Scott Sullivan about premature births in SC and efforts and interventions that help prevent some preterm births. Dr. Sullivan is a Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Vice Chair of the Department of OB/GYN at MUSC.

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.

To discover where prothonotary warblers spend their winters, Beidler staff devised an ingenious system. Several birds, weighing about half an ounce, have been fitted with tiny backpacks that record information about where they go. The devices don’t transmit coordinates, they would be too heavy. This system is dependent on having some of the birds, with their site fidelity, successfully making the trip south and returning to the place of their birth. Then they’re trapped, the backpacks removed, and information retrieved.

A listener built a bird box in his yard and it has proven to be very popular...

The yellow-bellied sapsucker makes holes in tree trunks to get to the sap. Once the holes are made, though, other creatures take advantage of them.

“T” is for Tega Cay (York County; 2020 population 12, 273).

A listener finds a brown water snake about to make a meal of a catfish...