Conecuh National Forest
The 83,000 acres of the Conecuh house scores of Red-cockaded Woodpecker colonies and hundreds of Bachman’s Sparrows in the pine forests. You'll find breeding Anhingas, Purple Gallinules, Common Moorhens, King Rails, and Least Bitterns in its wetlands, and Swallow-tailed Kites and Painted Buntings thinly scattered throughout the forest. Packed with breeding birds and a haven for wintering songbirds and waterfowl, the Conecuh deserves to be listed in the highest echelon of birding sites in Alabama.
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Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center
This is an excellent birding site, but because it is the property of Auburn University, and because of the educational programs held here throughout the year, visitors should contact the center or call for permission before exploring the grounds. There are multitudes of pinewoods birds, including numerous Bachman’s Sparrows, and good numbers of wetland birds in the wet areas. Swallow-tailed Kites breed nearby!
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Frank Jackson State Park
A compact park fronting a large lake, Frank Jackson State Park boasts a view of agricultural fields, multiple nature/hiking trails, picnicking areas, a boardwalk to Memorial Island in the lake, and considerable acreage of mostly mature mixed hardwood forest. Trails give access to songbird areas, while the forest edges attract migrants. Expect to see waterfowl and gulls on the lake in the colder months.
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Florala City Wetland Park/Florala State Park
The twin sites along the shores of 500-acre Lake Jackson provide boardwalk access through and above cypress hammocks, palmetto and scrub woods, and dense tangles of wetland and swamp plants. This is a superb site for wetland-loving songbirds, and a reasonably good spot to find wading birds, a few shorebirds, and gulls in winter.
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