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Birding Banshee in the Final Days of Winter

Mar 15, 2009

On this past Saturday’s regular monthly Banshee Reeks walk, co-sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee...

A Walk in the Woods… Why do we go?

Mar 11, 2009

A fellow nature lover, Cheryl, just over the mountain in West Virginia, wrote this lovely piece on going for a...

Great Birds at Banshee Reeks and the Dulles Wetlands

Feb 16, 2009

The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy sponsored a visit to the Dulles Greenway Wetlands Mitigation Project on the morning of Saturday Feb 14 ,...

Woods and Fields in the Coldest Month?

Feb 10, 2009

Well our Coldest Month Walk, was held on the warmest day so far this year. We had eight people come...

Great Waterfowl at Algonkian Park

Feb 8, 2009

Andy Rabin led a Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy bird walk at Algonkian Regional Park in eastern Loudoun Co, VA on Saturday...

Great Nature and Bird Walk at the Blue Ridge Center

Jan 25, 2009

This past Saturday, eleven people participated in the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s free monthly bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center...

Birding Banshee yielded 40 Species

Jan 11, 2009

Sixteen people showed up for our Saturday (1/10) morning bird walk at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve. The highlights of...

Highlights from the Calmes Neck Christmas Bird Count

Jan 10, 2009

Last weekend, January 4th, was the Calmes Neck Christmas Bird Count, which includes some wild nature spots in western Loudoun. Joe Coleman was one of...

Loudoun Christmas Bird Count had Rare Sightings

Jan 2, 2009

The results from our Central Loudoun Christmas Bird Count, conducted last Sunday, are still being tallied but here’s a preliminary...

Birth of a Christmas Birder, by Donovan Kelly

Dec 18, 2008

You don’t remember that sunless late December morning.  Temperatures and wind gusts lingered in the 20’s, pushing the wind chill...

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