Alabama
Alabama’s Black Belt Birding Festival kicks off August 2
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Happening Aug. 2 to 4, the fourth annual Black Belt Birding Festival will take wing throughout Alabama.
Highlighting the birds, history and heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region, the festival offers many opportunities to birdwatch with others and enjoy the natural environment.
In total, 18 different events are planned within the three-day event. Scheduled plans may be changed or canceled in the case of inclement weather. Attendees must fill out a registration and liability waiver before an event, which can be found by clicking here.
EVENTS
KICK-OFF PARTY AND VENDOR EXPO
Aug. 2, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Happening at Greensboro’s Project Horseshoe Farm, a free kick-off party will be held to celebrate the start of the festival featuring live Blues music by artists, archivists and founders of the Alabama Blues Project and a vendor expo.
MORNING EVENTS
- PERRY LAKES PARK, MARION
- Aug. 3, 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $30
- PAYNE LAKE RECREATION AREA, MOUNDVILLE
- Aug. 3, 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $30
- OLD CAHAWBA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK, ORRVILLE
- Aug. 3, 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $35
- M. BARNETT LAWLEY FOREVER WILD FIELD TRIAL AREA, GREENSBORO
- Aug. 3, 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Cost: $30
- SELMA: BIRD WALK ON THE HISTORIC EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE
- Aug. 3, 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. Cost: $30
- SUMTER FARM MORNING BIRDING TOUR, GEIGER
- Aug. 3, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $30
- DRIVING TOUR: SIGNATURE BLACK BELT BIRDS (Greensboro Opera House)
- Aug. 3, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $30
- SELMA: BIRD WALK IN HISTORIC OLD LIVE OAK CEMETERY
- Aug. 3, 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Cost $30
- THE JOE FARM, NEWBERN
- Aug. 3, 10 a.m. to noon. Cost: $40
- SUMTER FARM BIRDS AND WILDFLOWERS WALL, GEIGER
- Aug. 4, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cost: $30
AFTERNOON EVENTS
- BIRDS OF PREY WITH ALABAMA WILDLIFE CENTER (Alabama Audubon’s Greensboro office)
- Aug. 3, 1:30 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DR. DWAYNE ESTES (Greensboro Opera House)
- Aug. 3, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost: $15
EVENING EVENTS
- PRAIRIE RESTORATION AT CONTENTMENT, GREENSBORO
- Aug. 3, 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Cost: $30
- BARTON’S BEACH AND ENDANGERED SPECIES TOUR, MARION
- Aug. 3, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Cost: $30
- RED-COCKADED WOODPECKERS & LONGLEAF PINE FIRE ECOLOGY, MOUNDVILLE
- Aug. 3, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cost: $30
- SUMTER FARM PRAIRIE RESTORATION TOUR, GEIGER
- Aug. 3, 4:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cost: $30
- OWL PROWL AT SUMTER FARM, GEIGER
- Aug. 3, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost: $30
For more information, click here to visit the full schedule on the Alabama Audubon’s website.
Alabama football hosted a hometown kid for an official visit last weekend when it got Jeremiah Beverley on campus for an official visit.
Beverley attends Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and ESPN currently has him rated as a four-star recruit. He is considering Alabama, Cincinnati, Wake Forest and others.
The Crimson Tide offered Beverley earlier this month and got him on campus for an official visit last weekend. The Alabama target told Touchdown Alabama he used the visit to learn what the Tide has planned for him if he commits.
“I’m truly happy that I went on that official visit,” Beverley said. “Blessed for that. All I was talking about was the next step, what I got to do? So, just knowing what they have planned for me, knowing what they have set for me.”
At 6-foot-2 and 235 pounds, Beverley makes plays for Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa as a defensive end. Alabama has plans to use him similarly at the next level.
“They’re going to have me at wolf mostly,” Beverley said. “I know coach (Kane) Wommack and coach (Christian) Robinson, I think they see me at other positions, but I know it is guaranteed they’re going to see me at Wolf and me working my way up on special teams, and they expect that out of me.”
Beverley is expected to announce a commitment decision on Friday.
Watch Jeremiah Beverley’s Highlights Below:
Justin Smith is the Managing Editor and Lead Writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine with over 10 years of writing experience & expertise. Smith has consistently delivered high quality, extensively researched information on the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide football team that fans can trust. Smith is official credentialed media with the University of Alabama under Touchdown Alabama Magazine. He is also the Director of Recruiting for Touchdown Enterprises, specializing in scouting and analyzing high school recruits around the nation, specifically focusing on recruits within the state of Alabama.
Alabama football is hiring Noah Fisher to be its assistant tight ends coach, according to CBS Sports’ Matt Zenitz.
Fisher spent two seasons as a graduate assistant working with the offensive line and tight ends at Louisville before joining the Tide’s staff. He played three years on the offensive line at South Alabama and spent one season with Tulane. The Jaguars started Fisher along its offensive line when he was a player for multiple games.
The Crimson Tide appear to want to use their tight ends in multiple ways in the future including as extra blockers along the line of scrimmage. Fisher looks as if he can assist the Tide with this mission.
Justin Smith is the Managing Editor and Lead Writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine with over 10 years of writing experience & expertise. Smith has consistently delivered high quality, extensively researched information on the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide football team that fans can trust. Smith is official credentialed media with the University of Alabama under Touchdown Alabama Magazine. He is also the Director of Recruiting for Touchdown Enterprises, specializing in scouting and analyzing high school recruits around the nation, specifically focusing on recruits within the state of Alabama.
PRICHARD, Ala. (NBC 15) — Sewage overflows during storms in Prichard are sending wastewater into local waterways that feed Mobile Bay, prompting an environmental group to push for state funding to upgrade aging infrastructure.
Mobile Baykeeper says sewage overflows during storms flow into Three Mile Creek, then into the Mobile River, and ultimately end up in Mobile Bay. The group said that last week, during heavy rain, more than 256,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Gum Tree Branch and Three Mile Creek.
Mobile Baykeeper has launched a petition seeking funding from the state of Alabama to fix Prichard’s old water infrastructure.
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