2026 Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival

With storms forecast for the weekend, there wasn’t much hope to see many balloons flying during the Gulf Coast Hot … More

On the Rocks

You can watch shore birds come and go on the jetty rocks outside a Dauphin Island boat launch.

This year is the first year that the Alabama Coastal Birdfest is sponsored by Alabama Audubon. The Tern Island trip … More

The Alabama Coastal Birdfest offers opportunities to visit places you would never have the ability to visit without owning a … More

I’m not the best when identifying shore birds, so I hope Google got it correct on the sandpipers. Tern Island … More

One of the trips of the Alabama Coastal Birdfest was to Tern Island. I’ve never been there before. It is … More

The American Oystercatcher was one of the birds I hoped we would spot on our trip to Tern Island during … More

Kites Over Mobile was held at Battleship Park. The field in front of the USS Alabama is the perfect place … More

Kites Over Mobile didn’t have the big kites like Kites Over Pensacola Beach, but it did have a lot more … More

On Tuesday’s Blue Angels’s practice, they met up with the Thunderbirds for a fly-by over Pensacola Beach. If I had … More