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Barred Owl (Owlet)

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Upstate South Carolina

These images of a young barred owlet

were made about fifteen minutes after it 

 emerged from its nest in an old sycamore cavity 

and experienced the outside world for the first time.

All of this occurred about forty feet from our veranda.

OUR BIRDS, OUR COUNTRY

Yellow-breasted Chat

Fant's Grove Wildlife Management Area

Upstate South Carolina

Here is your country.

Cherish these natural wonders, 

cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage,

for your children and your children's children.

Do not let the selfish men or greedy interests

skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt

PRAIRIE WARBLER

Prairie Warbler

Upstate South Carollina

This grand show is eternal.

It is always sunrise somewhere;

the dew is never dried all at once;

a shower is forever falling;

vapor is ever rising.

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, 

eternal dawn and gloaming,

on sea and continents and islands,

each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

John Muir

YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER

Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Swan Lake

Furman University

Greenville, South Carolina

The world is greater than its words.

Wendell Berry