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
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- Bald Eagle
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- American Coots
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- Roseate Spoonbill
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- Pied-bill Grebe
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- Pied-bill Grebe
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- Black-bellied Plover
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- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
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- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Day 2: Francis Marion National Forest
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- Carolina Chickadee
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- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Day 2: Pitt Street Causeway, Charleston, SC
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- Horned Grebe
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- Claspper Rails
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- Boat-tailed Grackle
Day 3: Bear Island WMA
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- Chuck-will’s-widow
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- Black-necked Stilt
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- American White Pelicans
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- Shorebirds
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- Tricolored Heron
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- Spotted Sandpiper
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- Tree Swallow
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- Green Heron
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- American Avocets
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- Lesser Yellowlegs
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- Great Egret/Tricolored Egret
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- Blue-winged Teal
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- Semipalmated Plover
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- Spotted Sandpiper
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- Osprey
Day 3: Donnelley WMA
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- Summer Tanager
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- Purple Gallinule
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- Painted Bunting
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- Solitary Sandpiper
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- Savannah Sparrow(?)
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- Wood Stork
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- Eastern Wood Pewee
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- Prothonotary Warbler
Day 4: Caw Caw Interpretive Center
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- Swallow-tail Kite
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- Red-shouldered Hawk/Swallow-tail Kite
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- Red-Shouldered Hawk
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- Wood Stork
Day 5: Francis Beidler Forest
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- Barred Owl Chick
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- Yellow-throated Warbler
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- Yellow-throated Warbler
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- Prothonotary Warbler
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- Prothonotary Warbler
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- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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- Veery
Day 5: Pitt Street Causeway, Charleston, SC
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- Semipalmated Plover
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- Laughing Gulls
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- Great Egret
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- Marbled Godwit
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- Black-bellied Plover
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- Ruddy Turnstone/Boat-tailed Grackle/?