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  • Birds: Willet

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    Birds: Willet

    I’m not a birder, but I do like photographing birds.  While this may be the first steps along a path, a few more  remain, including:  I can’t rhyme off bird facts; I know only a few by name; I don’t (officially) collect sightings. Although having seen a couple of Mississippi Sandhill Cranes may change that.   Notwithstanding…

  • Adams Run

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    Adams Run

    The Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge has two plantations on the property.  We visited the plantation just outside of Adams Run South Carolina on the Edisto River. This unit was built in 1828 and operated as a rice plantation until the decline of the industry in the late 1800’s.  Subsequently the plantation was sold…

  • Pinckney Island National Wildlife Reserve

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    Pinckney Island National Wildlife Reserve

    Pinckney Island is located in South Carolina between the mainland and Hilton Head Island. The Reserve takes up most of the island. Like most reserves entry is free.  A parking lot is located less than a half mile from the gates; no motorized vehicles may proceed beyond that point.  Out came the bicycles. Beyond that point…

  • Savannah National Wildlife Reserve

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    Savannah National Wildlife Reserve

    Another day on our bicycles.    The area was previously a rice farm, now over run with various wetland plants and grasses, with the occasional hammock hosting pines and oak trees.  The former offers a habitat for various water fowl; the latter proving a place for song birds. To the south of highway 17 is a…

  • Harris Neck National Wildlife Reserve

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    Harris Neck National Wildlife Reserve

    Located just south of Savannah Georgia on the South Newport River, we arrived before 9:00 AM. We parked the car, unpacked the bicycles and began our tour.  As we approached the park down highway 131, about 100 meters in front, a deer jumped across the road.  As I watched it clear the road a second…