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Hobcaw Barony birding opportunities



Hi y'all,

Via arrangement with the management, I'll be leading 4 birding outings in
Hobcaw Barony, a private, restricted access 17,500 acre research
reserve/refuge located just north of Georgetown, SC on US Hwy 17. The
property contains a diversity of coastal plain habitats, including longleaf
pine savannah and sandhills, pond pine pocosin, cypress/tupelo swamp,
bottomland hardwoods, former ricefields, fresh- and saltwater marshes.
Hobcaw
is home for Red-cockaded woodpeckers, Bachman's Sparrow, Bald Eagle and a
host of Neo-tropical migrant breeding birds.

The barony is also a site of historical and archaeological import,
originally granted to Lord John Carteret by the Lord's Proprietors in the
early 1700's, subsequently divided into 11 rice plantations, then the
properties reassembled in the 1900's by Bernard Baruch and his daughter
Belle.

The outings will be held April 19 & 26 and May 3 & 10 from 7 - 10 a.m. Each
trip is limited to 14 participants.

For fee and reservation info, contact C.L.A.S.S. at Litchfield, ph. #
843-235-9600.


Cheers,
gary

gary phillips
conway, sc
sunset zone 31

"...where is the person, I ask, who, on observing this glittering fragment
of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and turn his mind with
reverence..." (J.J. Audubon)