The smaller marsh area (Perry Pond) near the Ashley is not small, just not big by South Carolina standards. Lately the water levels have been all over the place. A big marsh alongside controls the water flow from the river, and that has been under repair with new dikes. The current ones are from civil war era, just patched over the decades.

With Perry Pond either mud or flood the wading birds have been flocking to a few deeper cuts in the edges. Below a Great Egret and Tricolor share space, which is now common.