We're Just Whistlin' Dixie ...

“Better have as a king a vulture advised by swans

Than a swan advised by vultures.”

      ~ Panchatantra

A pair of turkey vultures are just whistlin’ dixie perched amidst the Spanish Moss on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Southern Fishin' ...

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

          ~ Aesop

            ~ born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.

A Juvenile Little Blue Heron fishes its dinner out of the lagoon as sunset approaches on a late October evening in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Bright-Eyed In Dixie ...

“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

                           ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                                 ~ 1858-1919

                 ~ Naturalist & Conservationist

  ~ 26^th President of the United States of America

                                  ~1901-1909

A double-crested cormorant keeps an eye on the lagoon amid the autumn leaves on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.