It’s been two, maybe three weeks since I was in Alabama. And you know that I took a few photos while I was there.

Maybe you’d want to see a few of my favorites?

Of course who really defines the term “few?”

As it turns out most of the images I took this time revolved around birds. Why do you think that is? And are the birds much different in Alabama than they are in Michigan?

But we weren’t always birders, we also took a couple boat rides on my brother’s lake. One in the middle of the day where we saw the bird above and one to see the sunset.

And on our boat rides we did, of course, see birds. This was a big bird. This is the Osprey that builds a nest every year in the very tall power towers on my brother’s lake.

There were very noisy babies in residence when I visited. They cried all day for mom or dad to feed them.

And there was a bluebird couple remodeling the nest for their next brood, hovering around just over our heads as we sat on the back patio.

They didn’t seem worried about us at all as long as we didn’t move too quickly.

And a brown thrush singing away and then scuttling along the lake shore looking for something good to eat.

And, back at the cabin’s lake, we climbed the mountain and then the fire tower to view the large expanse of Lake Martin.

Actually, you can, even at that height, only view a small portion of this giant lake.

And of course I went out in the kayak a couple times, not going too far, just down to the end of this bit of water, or that bit over there.

We have martin gourds at Lake Martin and this year the birds have taken up residence in at least one of them.

Babies there too.

So all in all it was a good trip. I’m glad I went and I’m hoping to get down there again before this summer is over.

We’ll see.

Oh…you ask…on my trip back to Michigan did I see anything interesting?

Well…what do you think?