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 […]
Gardening for Nature: Legumes
Palmetto Bluff is graced with a diversity of plants belonging to the Fabaceae family, better known as legumes. These plants are present in an array of habitats and are easily […]
Gardening for Nature: Milkweeds
Beaufort County is home to roughly a dozen species of milkweed, three of which have been documented growing wild at Palmetto Bluff. The genus Asclepias earned the common name “milkweed” […]
