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Feed summer hummingbirds for entertainment, beauty

Thousands of South Carolina residents enrich their summers by feeding hummingbirds. Male ruby-throated hummingbirds, which feature the characteristic metallic blood-red throat bib, began showing up in South Carolina in late March, with their white-throated mates arriving from the tropics about a week later. Most hummingbird activity around feeders, however, does not really pick up until midsummer. (Photo courtesy Phillip Jones - SCDNR)

• New laws for popular saltwater finfish
  
• Volunteers improve fish habitat with plantings at Lake Hartwell
• Some longleaf pines shedding needles early due to drought
• Lexington County man manufactures popular lure
• Feed summer hummingbirds for entertainment, beauty
• Conservation Bank board meets June 20 in Greenville
• Map Modernization meetings in Lowcountry June 25-27
• Moderate drought declared for South Carolina
• 100,000 trout stocked in mountain streams
• DNR stocks striped and hybrid bass into Lakes Hartwell and Thurmond
• Now is the time to plant fields for Fall mourning dove hunts
• Conservation practices improve wildlife habitat in South Carolina
  
• Nuisance alligators are responsibility of property owners in South Carolina
  
• Historic habitat protection project completed in Hampton County
• Hampton Marine Conservation Banquet set for Aug. 18
  
• Freshwater Fishing Trends
• Saltwater Fishing Trends
• S.C. Weekly Tidetable