Joe Watts

Nine east-central Alabama counties will come together on May 12 to launch the Appalachian Highlands Birding Trail. The newly developed trail is the sixth of eight organized trails that will ultimately cover the state as birding becomes an increasingly …

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  reason …

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 spr …

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-cr …