Mike and Diane Canney held their third annual Wine, Wings and Wildlife event July 21 to support wildlife and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy.  This time, the festivities were held at Sunset Hills Vineyard in Purcellville.  Read about the Canneys’ work in this article in the Purcellville Gazette.  

A Monarch Waystation simply is a garden that has both milkweed and nectar plants and just as you can grow these plants in the ground, you can also do it in containers that you keep on your deck, balcony, front steps or elsewhere around your home. All you need is pots, soil, plants and water. […]

Drivers, there is a way to help Monarchs and other butterflies and insects with your car. Well, okay, not exactly your car but with your license plate. You can now purchase a lovely Pollinator Plate from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles for $25 and after the first 1,000 sold, $15 of the $25 fee is […]

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy is delighted to hear that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), has received a Virginia Green Travel Star Award for Most Innovative Green Project for a commitment to green tourism practices through its Pollinator Habitat Program at Virginia Welcome Centers. In 2014, VDOT launched the Pollinator Habitat Program working with Loudoun Wildlife […]

Vol. 20 Issue 4, Winter 2015 By Nicole Hamilton As you read this, Monarch butterflies rest by the millions in Oyamel fir trees in a tiny mountain town outside of Mexico City. These butterflies lived in our gardens. They gobbled up milkweed as caterpillars and sipped nectar as adults. They sat on our fingers and […]

Vol. 20, Issue 2, Summer 2015 By Donna Quinn Common Milkweed’s story is also a story about us, our values and how we live. Before the days of modern conveniences like grocery stores, it was considered a useful plant. It was eaten, although it is toxic and requires special preparation to be safe for human […]

The NRDC sums up the issue quite well in their video and petition to Dow Chemical. Please sign and share: NRDC Petition to Dow Chemical httpv://youtu.be/rRaXmjrabs4

With so many people involved in Loudoun County’s Monarch efforts, it’s a delight to shine a spotlight on some of them, so we thought it would be purposeful to share a few exciting and diverse efforts coming out of Loudoun county. Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy joined in the extraordinary citizen science and conservation effort for the […]

The 11 people on this regular bird walk (every 4th Saturday of each month) at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship spent most of their time in the forest with only a short walk along Butterfly Alley on the power line. The walk,  led by Joe Coleman and Elliott & Nancy Kirschbaum, followed Arnold Road […]

The highlights of this morning’s regular monthly bird walk, sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee Reeks, were three (possibly four) Yellow-breasted Chats, three of which were well seen as they perched high in trees and chatted away; a Cooper’s Hawk carrying prey as it flew overhead; and two Eastern Towhees […]