Wavefan

Ride a bike or walk down the "Cat Man Road" part of the Hugh Branyon Backcountry Nature trail in Orange Beach in the morning or near dusk in the Spring, Summer, or Fall and odds are, if you look carefully, you will encounter more than one Dusky Pygmy. Other places where I have seen multiple Pygmies...

Gorgeous coral. Only venomous snake native to southeast I have never seen in the wild. For those wanting to find dusky pygmies, any state park on the coast from gulf shores Alabama to big bend of Florida should produce. Look but don’t take. ...

Water snake - not venomous but if it is like most of its relatives calling it harmless is not accurate either. They will draw blood with repeated bites and thrash and poop like crazy most of the time if you try to handle....

I hunt near the red hills wma and would be interested in hearing how hunters on the wma fare. Is it crowded? Lots of birds? That region is turkey central. Hope it’s not like public land hunting in Louisiana where the guns often outnumber the gobblers. ...

Can’t hold a candle to specks but if filleted and blood line removed and fried and eaten the same day as caught blues are okay. Once frozen they are inedible. The fresher the better. Even sitting in an ice chest all day or putting the fillets in the fridge overnight hurts the flavor. ...

Amos is visiting Tulane. Greenies have done well in the portal. ...

On eating woodcock- not as good to me as quail or dove, but I found a recipe many decades ago where you pluck and draw the woodcock, salt and pepper inside and out, and bake it with currant jam smeared on the outside and stuffed in the body cavity. Really tasty. Don’t overcook. ...

Elevated shooting house on a small and mostly brown food plot in Monroe County Alabama. Watching doe and yearlings. Waiting for eight point or better. Mid 70s. Savage 11 in .243. ...

I’ve piddled around in the woods, swamps, marshes, dunes, and fields in the southeast often for over fifty years. Frequently actively looking for snakes. Never encountered a coral snake in the wild. Stumbled upon every endemic venomous snake but a coral at least a couple of times. Would consider mys...

I can think of very few things that would be a bigger story in natural history than confirming the existence of the ivory bill. The hoopla in 2004 when one was reported in Arkansas legit touched my heart. ...