The Giving Tree

Photography by Krisztian Lonyai. Illustrated by Amanda Davis Once there was a tree. Summertime in the Lowcountry. Not exactly the time of year when one starts thinking about Christmas and […]

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

The holiday season is steeped in traditions and customs often connected to plants. Think decking the halls with boughs of holly… and I will pause a moment for those who […]

Marsh Tracks

The marshes surrounding Palmetto Bluff fill and spill with water from the ocean on a never-ending 12-hour loop. Local fauna, going about their daily lives, are deeply connected to the […]

Bye-Bye Bumblebee

October is when we begin to say farewell to the eastern bumblebee buzzing around Palmetto Bluff. All bumblebees in North America form annual colonies which means this year’s queens, along […]

Virtual Brown Bag Lunch: Rice Fields for Wildlife

A Feathered Storm

Anyone who spends time by the inland waterway during the fall bird migration may feel as if they entered the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds. Tree swallows numbering in the […]

Virtual Brown Bag Lunch: Biogeography of the Lowcountry

Palmetto Bluff’s 211th Bird Species

Being a birder during the fall migration typically results in spending my free time looking for migratory birds. While some people would not dream of being at work on their […]

Winter Food Plots

Justin Hardy, the Conservancy land & wildlife manager, has been hard at work studying and implementing new techniques to improve the quality of the Conservancy’s food plots. The 2020 winter […]

Heading South for the Winter

Early October is considered the peak of fall migration for South Carolina. Songbirds start heading south at the beginning of September, and this trend will continue until late November. Most […]