May 2009 Greetings! Congratulations on completing the first month of the Loudoun County Bird Atlas! Since many of you (including myself) are new to atlasing, I thought it may be helpful to send out a few atlasing tips and updates once a month until we all become more familiar with atlasing. As many of you […]
April 2009 Greetings! I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Loudoun County Bird Atlas! As of today, you can begin collecting and reporting data for the atlas project! The online data entry system is up and running and ready for data entry. Please remember to use your field cards for collecting data and […]
In this episode we are joined by Spring Ligi and Joe Coleman to talk about the Loudoun Bird Atlas Project that we just launched.
Our 12th Annual Butterfly Count was an amazing success! Going into the count, many of us felt as though butterfly numbers and species were down this year. The rains seemed to cause some plants to bloom later, such as the Joe Pye Weed. The butterflies seemed slow to show up in our gardens and there […]
Vol. 13 Issue 4, Winter 2008 By E.Evans, M.Findley, N.Hamilton You might think that studies to map the mating activity of frogs and salamanders, track how many bluebirds have fledged in a given year, or count the number of aquatic insects that inhabit a stream impacted by habitat improvement activities are meant to be conducted […]
Vol. 2 Issue 3, Fall 1997 By Maria Ruth Stream Monitoring in Loudoun County Stream-monitoring programs, started in Loudoun County in 1997, are part of a rapidly growing watershed protection effort sweeping the nation. The programs are usually spearheaded by conservation groups and supported by hundreds of volunteers. Loudoun’s program is coordinated by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, […]
The 2007 Butterfly Count was another success with 40 people participating, compared to 37 last year. This is the highest number of participants we have had in our 11 years of holding this count and it allowed us to expand to 6 teams so we could cover more territory. August 6, 2007 proved to be […]
On August 5, the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy held its Tenth Annual Butterfly Count. The count is modeled after the Christmas Bird Count with a 7.5-mile count circle broken into sectors, with count teams assigned sectors in which to look for and identify butterflies, and data collected. We use the data locally to identify any trends […]
Our 9th Annual Butterfly Count was a wonderful time! The weather was perfect – sunny enough for butterflies but not too hot for the counters. Twenty-six of us went out in 4 teams, covering a very large area of our count circle that ranged from the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship down through Appalachian […]