Coastal Georgia Birding

Look what I found the first thing on my survey of Saturday morning July 23.  This chick took me by surprise. I thought that we would b...

The Beach Bird Stewards were at Georgia's Department of Natural Resources Beach Week on St. Simons Island, GA June 29. We ha...

Yesterday, May 26, 2015, Yank Moore, Jekyll Island Authority's wildlife coordinator, found a new Wilson Plover's nest with 2 hatchli...

Brad Winn who was then working with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources persuaded Lisa and Art Hurt to do this special Atlanta Au...

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center attracts over 100,000 people to come to Jekyll annually. On Thursday April 9 and Friday, April 10 around 12...

March 30, 2014, it has been a year since that day.  I had joined a group of birders on Little St. Simons Island.  My hip had been giving me ...

February 21 was the evening for the third year for Jekyll Island's Green Screen. Ben Carswell created this wonderful event.  Each year,...

Sorry for the long delay since the last post.  I have been busy with one of the perfect jobs for me.  I was an Eagle Monitor for US Fish ...

I asked Lauren Deaner, a researcher working on Wilson's Plovers, to share some of her pictures of Wilson's Plovers.  Here are a coup...

On Thursday May 9, I went down to see if the Wilson's Plover's nest survived the super high tides and heavy rains.    I saw the tw...

They are nesting!  Want to help? Consider signing on for a Plover Patrol Survey.  It is simple and you get to spend 2 hours on the beach. ...

                                    Gene taking down the stakes On Friday, Gene Keferl, Ben Carswell and I met to take down the fence l...

Wilson's Plovers are beginning to move off the nesting grounds and up and down the coast.  Help the scientists who are studying them. ...

Surprises happen when you least expect.  I am lucky to have a great group of volunteers for the Plover Patrol.  One of them is Molly.  She ...

A strong east wind piled up Sargassum grass on Jekyll over the weekend  This is one of those sea weeds that is really wonderful....quite c...