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Terrible iPhone pic but watched this guy soar over one of my fields today.
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Terrible iPhone pic but watched this guy soar over one of my fields today.
They really are aptly named.
I’ve seen 2 gliding with the Mississippi cousins over the house in the past month.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
I had one circling the house here in Pimlico a couple mornings ago. Closest I’ve ever been to one. I swear when I first saw him I thought he had just taken off from the field next to the house.
Living in Moncks Corner but looking forward to moving back to the West Coast in 2020 where there are more ducks and less duck hunters!! LOL
See them regularly here around Mingo creek. Saw 35 at one time a week ago over an big hay field. I’m sure some of both types
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I used to see them at Palmetto Gun Club fairly frequently
Never confuse enthusiasm for capability
I see them every time I cut 2 of my hayfields
Had one get a green snake out of a live oak in the yard last week. They and the Mississippi kites show up over the yard most afternoons this time of year . Mississippi kites eating dragonflies.
I wasn’t sure what I was seeing when I watched one cruising the hedgerows in the Congaree Swamp about 7 years ago. Cool birds.
Had 2 on my lease during turkey season. First time I had ever seen one and really hadn't ever paid much attention, but I knew what I was looking at the first time I saw one. Like Bog said, very aptly named.
"Never Trust a Skinny Chef."
I see more every year, starting in the beginning of April this year. I don't know if it is because I pay attention or there are more migrating up to SC. A lot in Georgetown County.
I’ve seen more over the past 4-5 years.
Had 2 over the house Saturday
Do any of y’all report your sightings?
https://stki.thecenterforbirdsofprey.org/
I’ve always been a little hesitant
"To the sensitive gunner nothing can equal a bird and a dog and a gun in trilogy."
George Bird Evans
I had a pair of Mississippi Kites nest in the tall trees around my house in Summerville for years. They usually showed up in early summer and stayed for a few months.
I always enjoyed seeing and hearing their calls in the morning.
Back 4 or 5 years ago when i first started noticing them I reported every one I saw. I was really interested to see the data, so I clicked that box every time for them to include me on the email list for the information. After 3 years running of them never sending me any information and the birds seemingly increasing in number, I quit submitting my sightings.
I report them and haven't received any updates either. They have a Facebook page that will occasionally post links to publications and information.
Them sumbitches ride on the breath of the Lord, and it makes my heart swell up in my chest to see one.
See them often on the club in FMNF, and have seen some in Mars Bluff.
A flock of these kites has moved in on a field that’s on my drive to and from work in the upstate. Probably a half dozen of them. I dang near run outta the road watching them. Never seen any in the upstate before
I don't need my name in the marquee lights....
great story, mergie
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
Have a pair that nest in a pine on my river bank every year.
I always geek out when I see them. My kids are starting to roll their eyes when I stop the boat, or truck to look at them.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
Where is your riverbank?
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
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