Swift Creek Park on Lake Woodruff offers access to 225 acres of  bottomland hardwood forest and wetlands along the banks of Swift Creek, where it joins the Alabama River. This is a low-traffic site, used primarily as a boat ramp.  Forest trails lead through the all-age, bottomland forest with towering white oaks and an understory […] Jones Bluff Powerhouse / Robert F. Henry Dam has surprisingly good birding owing in no small part to the variety of habitats.  This is one of the better places in the region to see wading birds, primarily Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets, along with shorebirds, gulls and terns in the wetland areas. Watch the […] Jones Bluff Park is an extremely productive and diverse area. The trail bordering the Alabama River is a great place to view riparian birds, from Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to Louisiana Waterthrushes, Prothonotary Warblers, Ospreys, Double-crested Cormorants and several species of swallows. This was once a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat launch, with a large paved […]