News and Highlights

• 14th Annual Butterfly Count: Join us on August 7th for the morning or a full day of counting butterflies! This will be a very interesting year for butterflies – weather has been pretty good for them. Red Admirals are having an irruption year and fritillaries are all over - so those species are expected to be high. Monarchs are another story however. The Monarch butterfly population was decimated by a double whammy of lowest population numbers last fall and the terrible weather events in Mexico in Jan/Feb. It’s an important year to their monitor populations. If you’d like to be a part of the count, you can sign up online. You'll be teamed up with butterfly experts so its a great way to learn.

Summary of Upcoming Events

• 14th Annual Loudoun Butterfly Count ― Saturday, August 7, 9:00 a.m.

• Birding Banshee ― Saturday, August 14, 8:00 a.m.

• Dragonflies at Banshee Reeks ― Saturday, August 22, 10:30 p.m.

• Birding the Blue Ridge Center ― Saturday, August 28, 8:00 a.m.

• Visit us at the Lucketts Fair ― Saturday and Sunday, August 27 and 28, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Special Thanks to the Dulles Greenway for their generous donation from their annual "Drive for Charity"