Admission: Free.
Hours of Operation: Daylight.
Highlights of this area include the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (aka the Grove Plantation) – this is en route to Edisto Island, Grove Plantation House, Edisto Beach State Park Interpretive Center.
Edisto Island and ACE Basin NWR are part of the ACE Basin – Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto – three rivers which form the basin in St. Helena Sound.
The best birding times are April through June.
Anhinga, White Ibis, Wood Stork, King Rail, Barred Owl, Red-headed Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Pine Warbler, Eastern Bluebird.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Yellow-throated Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Northern Parula, Summer Tanager, Orchard Oriole.
Least Bittern, Swallow-tailed Kite, Mississippi Kite, Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Acadian Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Viero, Prothonotary Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Summer Tanager, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Painted Bunting, Orchard Oriole, Bachman’s Sparrow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Northern Parula, Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Common Loon, Red-throated Loon, Horned Grebe, Red-breasted Merganser, Virginia Rail, Sora, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Blue-headed Vireo, Sedge Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Palm Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Fox Sparrow, Northern Harrier, Belted Kingfisher, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, White-throated Sparrow.