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Monday, February 27, 2012

Audubon Swamp Garden, Charleston, South Carolina, USA


Audubon Swamp Garden is a 60-acre cypress and tupelo swamp adjacent to Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. At one time, the swamp served as a reservoir for the plantation's rice cultivation. Today, the swamp garden includes native flora but also non-native, exotic plantings and is home to herons, ibis, turtles, otters, alligators, and other wildlife. It is a beauthiful, preserved, wetland park.

Tupelo trees and duckweed.

An alligator sunning on a platform.

A pair of Red-shouldered Hawks.

This tree is the most popular roost around - for many current and past Great Blue Herons.



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