Mammals
Gray squirrel (some even have names!)
Opossum
White-tailed deer (outside fenced area)
Cottontail rabbit
Little brown bat
Birds - Year Round
Great blue heron
Belted kingfisher
Turkey vulture (circling overhead)
Black vulture
Family of red shouldered hawks
Mourning dove
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
Northern flicker
White-eyed vireo
House finch
Blue jay
Tufted titmouse
White breasted nuthatch
American crow
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Northern cardinal
Wild turkey
Northern mockingbird
Pine warbler
Barred owl (heard regularly at night)
American robin
Carolina chickadee
Carolina wren (state bird of South Carolina)
Eastern bluebird
Gray catbird
European starling
Yellow throated warbler
Pine warbler
Brown-headed cowbird
Birds - Summer Visitors
Ruby throated hummingbird (1,000 mile migration)
Chimney swift
Painted bunting
Indigo bunting
Purple martin
Eastern wood-pewee
Eastern kingbird
Wood thrush
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Birds - Winter Visitors
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Vesper sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Red-winged blackbird (seen in huge flocks)
American goldfinch (seen in large flocks)
Reptiles - Snakes
Black racer
Black rat snake
Copperhead
Eastern kingsnake
Redbelly water snake
Ringneck snake
Rough green snake
Yellow rat snake
Timber (canebrake) rattlesnake
Venomous snakes are humanely captured and released in isolated woodland areas.
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Reptiles - Lizards
Broadhead skink
Five-lined skink
Carolina anole
Ground skink
Reptiles - Turtles
Eastern box turtle
Yellowbelly slider
Amphibians - Salamanders
Slimy salamander
Southern dusky salamander
Marbled salamander
Amphibians - Frogs/Toads
Eastern narrowmouth toad
Squirrel tree frog
Spring peeper
Green tree frog
Southern toad
Oak toad
Eastern spadefoot toad
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