Outdoors

Fort Morgan State Historic Site is a favorite amongst birders for good reason! This location provides easy access to diverse habitat along the Alabama coast. So diverse that it is split into 5 individual stops on the Coastal Alabama Birding Trail. We will meet and start our morning at the fishing pier picking through gullContinue Reading ...

Join us in discovering what birdlife the new Flying Creek Nature Preserve holds! The 108-acre parcel of land between Veterans Boulevard and Fly Creek boasts a diverse forest and riparian ecosystem. Since there haven’t been any reports of birding taking place at this site, we don’t exactly know what to expect! We hypothesize sightings ofContinue Reading ...

Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a journey in Talladega National Forest near Heflin, AL. The US Forest Service manages the trails and land in Talladega NF, including preserving and protecting the rare, expansive tracts of Longleaf Pine savannah here. These savannahs host large numbers of savannah specialists, including Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and Alabama's only knowContinue Reading ...

Our destination today is James D. Martin Wildlife Park, located on a backwater of the Coosa River near the Gadsden Mall. Winter water birds will have arrived by the time of our visit (Ring-billed Gulls, American Coots and Hooded Mergansers, for example), while the small wooded island at the terminus of the boardwalk (handicap accessible)Continue Reading ...

Join Coastal Programs Manager Cortney Weatherby and Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard on a winter trip to one to Alabama's best locations for shorebirds and ducks, the Blakeley Mud Lakes in Mobile!  The Blakeley Mud Lakes is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers and Mobile Port Authority and used to store mud and sand refuseContinue Reading ...

This birding trip will cover the always delightful combo of Village Point & Bayfront Park in Daphne. We will meet in the Village Pointe parking lot which can often have good birds flitting around such as golden-crowned kinglets, pine warblers, and brown-headed nuthatch. From there we will take the main gravel trail through the heartContinue Reading ...