More than you ever wanted to know about Alabama native Joe Watts
Other than a visit to Alabama’s Wiregrass (life bird Blue-headed Vireo!!!) and a VERY quick trip to Washington, D.C. for a National Audubon board meeting, we’ve stayed pretty close to home. Multiple trips to Flagg Mountain for a project, but otherwise Shelby County has been about as far afield as I’ve been this year. A few photos from birds near (and a little bit far).
New website for the Alabama Trails Foundation. This nonprofit is working to make access to trails across Alabama a priority. https://alabamatrailsfoundation.org/
My friends at CAWACO RC&D are very probably my oldest clients. I think I did a print newsletter for them around 2000, just as I was getting started. I built their first website for them a LONG time ago too, back in the days when websites were built using tables and everything was hard coded and static. Wow have times changed. Now, their website collects final reports from the grants they provide and displays them along with photos–making sure to highlight the many wonderful projects that they’ve helped make possible and taking away some of the effort to do so from staff.
I’ve been enjoying taking photos of birds for about 10 years now, with very varied success. Here are a few of the ones I’ve snapped through the years. I’m glad I took them all–most aren’t all that good, but it helps me remember when I saw the bird and gives me a better idea of what I was looking at!
Photos from a May trip to Shoal Creek Park. What a lovely location that we’ve recently added to the Alabama Birding Trails program. It’s really a treasure.
