Birds Watching In Wedowee

The Alabama Birding Trail is made up of eight different trails across the state. Each of our featured towns have at least one location on the trails. The birding trail is funded through the Alabama Department of Tourism and is a project in partnership with the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, Alabama Dept. of Conservation and Alabama Audubon

Wedowee Kiwanis Park

GPS 33.2976119 -85.481759

Wedowee Kiwanis Park offers several distinctly different habitats in a relatively compact site. The park is heavily wooded, predominately in hardwoods.  The entrance road, lined in mid-sized hardwoods may produce a few songbirds, particularly in migration.  Continue straight to a ballfield and parking area.  The most productive birding will likely be the woods beyond the parking area, which should produce a variety of songbirds in all seasons. Leave the ballfield-area woods, turn back left (NW) from the entrance road and follow a small stream spanned by a covered bridge. The open field beyond the bridge may yield some birds of open fields, such as Eastern Meadowlarks, Eastern Kingbirds (warmer months), and Northern Bobwhites. A loop road begins here. There is considerable understory and mid-story to the right. Explore this often wet habitat for Eastern Towhees, Carolina Wrens, and Chipping, Field, and Song Sparrows all year. These birds are joined by wintering songbirds such as Dark-eyed Juncos, Swamp Sparrows, Winter Wrens, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrushes, and others from autumn through spring. It has a ballfield, picnic tables and walking trails. There is also a cool little covered bridge over a small stream.

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