The last few years I have gone to the Santee Birding Festival in the Spring. It is a great event and this year in addition to the trips offered by the Festival I also did some personal trips to further explore the Charleston area.
Day 1: Huntington Beach State Park
- Bald Eagle
- American Coots
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Pied-bill Grebe
- Pied-bill Grebe
- Black-bellied Plover
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Day 2: Francis Marion National Forest
- Carolina Chickadee
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Day 2: Pitt Street Causeway, Charleston, SC
- Horned Grebe
- Claspper Rails
- Boat-tailed Grackle
Day 3: Bear Island WMA
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Black-necked Stilt
- American White Pelicans
- Shorebirds
- Tricolored Heron
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Tree Swallow
- Green Heron
- American Avocets
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Great Egret/Tricolored Egret
- Blue-winged Teal
- Semipalmated Plover
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Osprey
Day 3: Donnelley WMA
- Summer Tanager
- Purple Gallinule
- Painted Bunting
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Savannah Sparrow(?)
- Wood Stork
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Prothonotary Warbler
Day 4: Caw Caw Interpretive Center
- Swallow-tail Kite
- Red-shouldered Hawk/Swallow-tail Kite
- Red-Shouldered Hawk
- Wood Stork
Day 5: Francis Beidler Forest
- Barred Owl Chick
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Veery
Day 5: Pitt Street Causeway, Charleston, SC
- Semipalmated Plover
- Laughing Gulls
- Great Egret
- Marbled Godwit
- Black-bellied Plover
- Ruddy Turnstone/Boat-tailed Grackle/?