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  • Category: Birding
  • Founded: Jan 12, 2000
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Hi all, I have been looking for migrants for three weeks here near Stevenson, but no luck until today. This morning we had a Barn Swallow and a Blue-headed ...
1 Mar 16, 2012
2:43 am

Bert Harris
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We had our FOS hummer today. What a handsome male he was, too! Shirley Farrell Tyler, AL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
1 Mar 16, 2012
12:21 am

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I had the first returning hummer in my yard this past Sunday. Sarah Whitfield Mobile. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
5 Mar 15, 2012
8:34 pm

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I was birding the Little River Canyon Mouth Park in northern Cherokee Co, yesterday (3/14) and had a FOS Yellow-throated warbler, in full song in the mature...
1 Mar 15, 2012
2:09 pm

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David and ALbirders, Even though we don't live in Alabama any more, we still keep up will you and miss all the great birding down there. Yesterday we had our...
1 Mar 14, 2012
12:17 pm

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Dick and Linda Reynolds report seeing the Western Tanager at the shell mounds late this afternoon! Carrie and I were there earlier in the afternoon and while...
4 Mar 14, 2012
11:12 am

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Spring must be here! I had my First of Season BARN SWALLOW today near Greenbrier in Limestone County. Had a couple of TREE SWALLOWS near that location last...
1 Mar 14, 2012
1:44 am

Neill Cowles
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Hi all, I just had 11 Rusty Blackbirds near Stevenson. It was nice to find some after over two weeks staying up here. Interestingly they stayed away from the...
1 Mar 12, 2012
6:54 pm

Bert Harris
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Last time I was at Magnolia Landfill, I saw an Eagle flying away. The lady who works there told me that she sees it a lot. I went today and saw 2 different...
2 Mar 11, 2012
3:04 am

Gregory J. Harber
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I was birdwatching out my window this a.m. A large flock of cedar waxwings were coming to red holly berries just outside my window.. What a sight. I went out...
1 Mar 10, 2012
2:19 pm

J C Allen
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Greetings: In Macon county today Kevin Jackson and I found a singing Male Parula and a male YELLOWTHROATED warbler. We also had Common Yellowthroats. Good...
1 Mar 9, 2012
1:18 am

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Hi all, For those of us familiar with the Magnolia Landfill in south Baldwin County, we know there's usually a decent chance of picking out a "rare" gull or...
1 Mar 8, 2012
9:37 pm

Eric Soehren
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Does anyone have any further word on the plan to build an elevated roadway through Gulf State Park? I need to update the Huntsville Canoe Club on the issue? ...
2 Mar 8, 2012
2:35 am

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Eva & I visited the Frog Pond Overlook (no kidding, it's a real place) in the Chocolocco State Forest just off Hwy 9 near Anniston today. Turns out it's one...
1 Mar 5, 2012
6:31 am

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Albirders We continue to have VERY few birds at our seed feeders so far this season. Only scattered sightings of Purple Finches, Goldfinches and Pine...
4 Mar 4, 2012
4:28 am

Gregory J. Harber
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This was posted on a Canon photo site on 29 Feb by a photographer that lists their location as "lower Alabama." "Just spotted my first one of this year about...
2 Mar 1, 2012
2:24 pm

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Our birding group was at Ft. Pickens this morning and a flock of about 12 Paruals along with 2 Tennessee Warblers and a Red-eyed Vireo came in over the Gulf...
1 Feb 29, 2012
11:06 pm

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With permission from our List Owner please: Fellow Albirders I would like to remind our hummer loving members and their friends that Martha Sargent and I will...
1 Feb 29, 2012
3:55 pm

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Hi all, I just received word that the previously reported ICELAND GULL discovered by Ben Garmon and Patsy Russo yesterday on Dauphin Island was seen again by...
1 Feb 28, 2012
8:37 pm

Howard Horne
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Last week, I received a report that reliable observers had recently seen, on more than one occasion, a pair of bald eagles near Bluff in Fayette County. The...
1 Feb 28, 2012
2:25 pm

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Hi all, I just received a phone call from Ben Garmon. He and Patsy Russo found an ICELAND GULL on the rocks at Little Billy Goat Hole on Dauphin Island....
1 Feb 27, 2012
5:08 pm

Howard Horne
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Hello - I have searched relentlessly in my home state of Missouri for any remaining populations of Bachman's Sparrow and so far have been unsuccessful. I will...
1 Feb 27, 2012
4:42 pm

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Some bird is building a nest in a tree right off my deck. I am not sure what bird. I posted a photo in the album Bird Nests....
1 Feb 27, 2012
4:42 pm

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On a walk not far from home this morning, I heard and saw my first White-eyed Vireo of the year. Early - or has it been around all winter? Early this...
1 Feb 25, 2012
11:24 pm

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a friend and I are going to Dauphin Island on Saturday to do some birding.  We are coming from Mississippi.  I read all the nice birds that are being seen,...
3 Feb 25, 2012
7:33 pm

Tarcila Fox
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Howard Horne just called to report he just found a PACIFIC LOON offshore from the Gulf SP pavilion (on beach) in Gulf Shores. The Pacific was feeding with...
1 Feb 25, 2012
6:37 pm

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RBA *Alabama *Statewide *INTERNET ONLY *February 25, 2012 *ALST1202.25 ... ===================================== Long-tailed Duck Vermilion Flycatcher ... ...
1 Feb 25, 2012
4:21 pm

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Driving to lunch to meet a model to discuss a portfolio shoot today, and as I drove up US 31 in Hoover, I saw an adult Bald eagle flying low between I-459 and...
1 Feb 24, 2012
7:00 pm

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Hello all - from Florence...I heard and saw my yard's first brown thrasher since fall. I got a photo good enough for me to double check ID but not good enough...
1 Feb 24, 2012
4:52 pm

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I was up at Weiss Lake today and was enjoying the scads of Bonaparte's gulls still present. First surprise was a lone American white pelican, then I thought I...
1 Feb 23, 2012
1:41 am

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