re: Catch of a lifetime!

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 in one day are Topsail Hill Park trails near FWB and pretty much all over the state park at the end of Cape San Blas, which may not be fully open yet from hurricane damage. I hardly ever see Pygmies farther inland but in the dunes and maritime forest right along the Gulf Coast they still seem pretty common in places that haven't been developed.