ypically, Magnolia Springs’ backroads are serenely quiet. Farms, both great and small, residential homes and open fields greet the casual observer. Rick Burmeister is not a casual observer. He is a dove hunter. 

This morning near Fairhope is just one illustration of that fact. “There’s one,” Burmeister says, acknowledging a mourning dove perched on a powerline parallel to County Road 12. “There’s another,” he says. At bird number seven, the outdoorsman summarizes the scene with experience handed down through family generations. “This is a good place to hunt doves.”

Burmeister’s grandfather farmed Fairhope in the early 1900s. Later, his father, the late Fritz Burmeister, and uncle, Willie Burmeister, tilled Baldwin County acreage for over 50 years. Crops included corn, soybeans, wheat, oats and sorghum, some of which doves refer to as “the all-you-can-eat buffet.”

“In childhood days, we could walk out of our house and hunt doves,” the 66-year-old Daphne resident recalls, referencing his boyhood home on the outskirts of Fairhope. The family no longer owns the property but still possesses its memories. 

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