Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge will hold its first Festival of the Cranes, a one-day event filled with refuge tours, up-close viewings, workshops, live raptors, and nature walks, January 12, 2013, kicking off a year-long celebration of Wheeler’s 75th anniversary. The celebration of Sandhill Cranes and Whooping Cranes will bring together experienced birders and those who [...]
If I were pressed to name my 10 favorite birds, one of the birds on that list would be the Scissor-tailed flycatcher. But they are very, very scarce here in Alabama. Although they have been nesting here for several years, the summer birds are few and far between — probably fewer than a dozen pairs [...]
I had the opportunity spend a day at beautiful Weiss Lake, near Centre and Leesburg in NE Alabama. What a lovely place — with an abundance of good songbird habitat on the way up, and the extensive lake gave me the opportunity to commune with a reasonably good number of winter visitants still present at [...]
For the past twenty-five years, it seems that the number-one form of mid-winter birding in Alabama for most observers has been Bald Eagle-watching. It began with the discovery of a substantial winter roost of the birds at Lake Guntersville and soon spread from there. Before long, several of the state parks were hosting eagle-themed weekends, [...]
It’s a chilly, bright January day; I’m standing below the Logan-Martin Dam with my wife Eva, and we’re enjoying the great looks we’re getting at the eagles, the Osprey, the gulls, the herons…what a great place! Among the birds present here are Black-crowned night-herons – adult Black-crowned night-herons, sub-adult Black-crowned night-herons, first-year Black-crowned night-herons…lots and [...]
