Wildlife of Newberry: Garden Pollinators, Hawks and Backyard Birds

Newberry sits in the rolling Piedmont of upstate South Carolina, where small-town gardens and backyards give way to farmland and woodland edges. The author found most of their wildlife in residential gardens and at a backyard feeder, with raptors overhead in the open sky above rural and suburban land. Sightings included a Monarch Butterfly, a Hummingbird Clearwing moth, Eastern Carpenter Bees, a White-breasted Nuthatch and Red-tailed Hawks. All six sightings came over two days in November. Hawks turned up around late morning, while the garden insects and the nuthatch were seen in mid-afternoon, around 3 pm, when the day was at its warmest and late-flowering plants were still drawing pollinators. This is a virtual guide written by someone who has watched wildlife here, not a tour. You get the author's notes on each species, covering when and where they saw it, and you can message the author with questions about the area. Wildlife does not keep a schedule, so sightings are never guaranteed.