Spring Wildflowers of Northern Virginia
2025-03-03 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn, VA, 20147, United States
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Bill Cour who will give an illustrated discussion of our local spring ephemerals, both how beautiful we find them and the interesting stories of their adaptations to availability of light and access to pollinators. Bill leads our weekly spring habitat restoration event, Save the Bluebells: Garlic Mustard Pull at Ball’s Bluff. This program takes place at Ashburn Library and is co-sponsored by the Loudoun County Public Library and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Registration requested.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Writing in Nature
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 | The Gatehouse at Morven Park, 17638 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg, VA, 20176, United States
Join Nancy Morgan, Director Emeritus, Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program, for this monthly opportunity, presented by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, to enjoy the combined health benefits of time spent in nature and writing thoughts and feelings. Writing is often considered a solo, reflective practice, but writing in the company of others can be a supportive, community building activity that encourages regular practice. Each session is a stand-alone event – come when you are able. Registration for each session is open through the morning of the workshop. View directions to the Gate House at Morven Park. Registration required.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Birding Banshee
2025-03-08 08:00 | Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, 21085 The Woods Road, Leesburg, VA, United States
Join us on this walk at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, a diverse 695-acre natural area in the heart of Loudoun County. This area of streams, trees, shrubs and fields attracts lots of species, making it a birding hotspot. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee Reeks and see what birds we find. This is a regular outing that takes place the second Saturday of every month. Bring binoculars if you have them. Registration Required.
Questions: Contact Joe Coleman at jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
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Wild About the Dulles Wetlands V: Coexisting with Beavers in Wetlands (Virtual)
2025-03-11 19:00 | VA
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Dulles Greenway Wetlands Mitigation Project, Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy invites you to learn about these important wetlands and the wildlife that call them home. Join us for this fifth program in the five-part series.
Alison Zak, founder and director of the Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund, will provide a brief history of human interactions with beavers over time, an overview of beaver ecology, and beaver behavior. She will also explore the benefits that beavers, and the wetlands they create, provide for the health of our watersheds, landscapes, and communities. Finally, she will discuss practical, effective, and nonlethal methods for managing beaver-caused problems like tree damage and flooding. Registration required.
Connection information for this virtual presentation will be included in your confirmation email when you register.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Travel Photography Program
2025-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Middleburg Library, 101 Reed Street, Middleburg, VA, 20117
Discover how to create captivating storytelling images on your next adventure. Photographer Jeff Mauritzen shares his experiences and photos from his travel assignments across all seven continents. With over 12 years as a photography expert for National Geographic Expeditions, Jeff Mauritzen has honed his craft in capturing the essence of every journey. This program takes place at Middleburg Library and is co-sponsored by the Loudoun County Public Library and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Registration requested.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Birding Algonkian Park
2025-03-16 08:00 | Algonkian Park, 47001 Fairway Drive, Sterling, VA, 20165, United States
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on a search for birds at this large, popular park in eastern Loudoun with extensive frontage along the Potomac River. Its rich bottomland forests, extensive wetlands and grassy areas are home to numerous species of birds. We’ll comb the park searching for winter visitors, residents and waterfowl. Bring binoculars if you have them. We’ll meet in the parking lot near the boat ramp. Registration required.
Questions: Contact Bryan Henson at bhenson@loudounwildife.org.
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Woodcock Walk at Broad Run Stream Valley Park
2025-03-19 19:15 | VA
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Michael Sciortino, John Denice, and Bruce Hill for an early evening walk on this special property looking for birds; then as dusk settles in, we’ll hope to hear the “peent” of American Woodcock and see their incredible courtship display flight. Parking/meeting information will be emailed to registered participants. Limit 15. Registration required.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
When registration is full, do not attempt to register. You can be added to the waitlist by emailing info@loudounwildlife.org. Be sure to include the event name and date in your email. You’ll be notified if space becomes available.
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Birding Sweet Run
2025-03-22 08:00 | Sweet Run State Park, 11661 Harpers Ferry Road, Purcellville, VA, 20132
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on the monthly bird walk at the Sweet Run State Park, a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. The property includes diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested slopes, which makes it a great place to see birds and other wildlife. Meet at the Interpretive Center; bring binoculars if you have them. The Park is located just north of Neersville (see map below). Directions can be found on the Park’s website. Registration Required.
Fee Notice: Sweet Run collects a parking fee via self-pay kiosks located at each parking area/entrance. The fee for a standard vehicle is $10. View fee information.
Questions: Contact Joe Coleman at jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
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New Date: Wild About the Dulles Wetlands II: The Unseen World (Virtual)
2025-03-25 19:00 | VA
This program was originally scheduled for January 28.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Dulles Greenway Wetlands Mitigation Project, Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy invites you to learn about these important wetlands and the wildlife that call them home. Join us for this second program in the five-part series.
Ever wonder what happens in the wetlands when no one is around? While investigating the reptile and amphibian populations at the Dulles Greenway Wetlands, Loudoun Wildlife started using trail cameras in the hopes of capturing some of the other animals who call the wetlands home. We were not disappointed! Join Jenny Erickson for a glimpse into the rarely seen inhabitants of the Dulles Greenway Wetlands, including a reptile and amphibian or two. Registration required
Connection information for this virtual presentation will be included in your confirmation email when you register.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Exploring JK Black Oak
2025-03-27 17:30 | VA
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Gerco Hoogeweg for an early evening walk on this special property, exploring the vernal pools and looking for birds. If the weather cooperates, the vernal pools should be full of water and we can explore early season amphibian activities. As dusk settles in, we’ll scout the property and hope to hear the ‘peent’ of American Woodcocks and see their incredible courtship display flight. Directions will be sent to registered participants. Limit 10. Registration required.
Note: Due to the environmentally sensitive habitat and rare species, JK Black Oak is not open for general public access.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
When registration is full, do not attempt to register. You can be added to the waitlist by emailing info@loudounwildlife.org. Be sure to include the event name and date in your email. You’ll be notified if space becomes available.
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A Croak in the Night: An Introduction to Frogs and Toads
2025-03-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Izaak Walton League Chapter House, 19237 Mountain Spring Lane, Leesburg, VA, 20175
If you’ve ever sat outside listening to the frogs and wondered what species of frog you are hearing, then this program is for you! Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for an introduction to our local frog and toad species at Izaak Walton League. Learn how to identify them both visually and by their calls, and learn what you can do to help protect the habitats of this fragile group of amphibians. This presentation is co-sponsored by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Izaak Walton League. Registration requested.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Creek Critters
2025-03-30 13:00 | Chapman DeMary Trail, 205 East Hirst Road, Purcellville, VA, 20132, United States
Join the Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, Purcellville Tree and Environment Sustainability Committee and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy to get up close and personal with the creek critters living in the South Fork of the Catoctin Creek at the Chapman DeMary Trail. Loudoun Wildlife Stream Team members will discuss the natural history of these critters, help participants learn how to identify them, and explain how they can help us determine the health of a stream. Registration required through the Purcellville Parks and Recreation.
Questions: Contact Amy Ulland at aulland@loudounwildlife.org

Writing in Nature
2025-04-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-01 11:00 - 12:30 | The Gatehouse at Morven Park, 17638 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg, VA, 20176, United States
Join Nancy Morgan, Director Emeritus, Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program, for this monthly opportunity, presented by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, to enjoy the combined health benefits of time spent in nature and writing thoughts and feelings. Writing is often considered a solo, reflective practice, but writing in the company of others can be a supportive, community building activity that encourages regular practice. Each session is a stand-alone event – come when you are able. Registration for each session is open through the morning of the workshop. View directions to the Gate House. Registration required.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Spring Wildflowers at Balls Bluff
2025-04-05 10:00 | Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, Ball's Bluff Road, Leesburg, VA
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a field trip to Ball’s Bluff to explore this beautiful wooded riverside park for the early spring wildflowers that enrich the Potomac River Valley. Limit 15. Registration required.
This is one of two spring walks at Balls Bluff. Please sign up for only one so that others may participate.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
Registration is closed.

Story Time at Watermark Woods
2025-04-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-24 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-08 10:30 - 11:00 | Watermark Woods, 16764 Hamilton Station Rd, Hamilton, VA, 20158
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on two Thursdays a month for a delightful 30-minute story time at Watermark Woods native plant nursery in Hamilton. We will choose a fun theme each week, reading engaging books and leading an educational discussion perfect for curious young minds. While kids ages 4 to 7 enjoy the stories, parents can browse the nursery’s beautiful native plants (just stay within earshot). It’s a wonderful way to spark a love of nature and reading in a relaxed, outdoor setting. Come explore, learn and grow with us. No registration required.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Birding Banshee
2025-04-12 08:00 | VA
Join us on this walk at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, a diverse 695-acre treasure in the heart of Loudoun County. This area of streams, trees, shrubs and fields attracts lots of species, making it a birding hotspot. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee Reeks to see what birds we will find. This is a regular outing that takes place the second Saturday of every month. Bring binoculars if you have them. Registration Required.
Questions: Contact Joe Coleman at jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
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Spring Wildflowers at Balls Bluff - Rescheduled
2025-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, Ball's Bluff Road, Leesburg, VA
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a field trip to Ball’s Bluff to explore this beautiful wooded riverside park for the early spring wildflowers that enrich the Potomac River Valley. Limit 15. Registration required.
This is one of two spring walks at Balls Bluff. Please sign up for only one so that others may participate.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Meet Your Local Birds of Prey
2025-04-17 19:00 | Brambleton Library, 22850 Brambleton Plaza, Brambleton, VA, 20148
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Secret Garden Birds and Bees’ Liz Dennison to meet live birds of prey — just like the ones living in our backyards. You’ll have a chance to meet a few of our native hawks, owls, and one tiny falcon up close. Hear their personal stories, and learn about the lives of raptors in the wild, the challenges they face in our increasingly human world, and what we can all do to help them thrive. Best of all, you might even get to take a selfie with your favorite hawk or owl. This family-friendly event takes place at Brambleton Library and is sponsored by the Loudoun County Public Library and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Registration requested.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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Celebrate Birds: Birding Broad Run Stream Valley Park
2025-04-19 08:00 | VA
Join Mike Sciortino and John Denice in search of birds at this surprisingly rich park along Broad Run in Brambleton which combines several different habitat types including a rich flood plain on both sides of the stream, edge and meadow habitat, and multiple ponds. The varied habitat should provide the group with a good variety of migrating birds as well as residents. Parking information and meeting location will be emailed to registered participants. Limit 15. Registration required.
Questions: Contact jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
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Celebrate Birds: Young Birders Walk at Broad Run
2025-04-19 08:00 | VA
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Young Birding Program in search of birds at this surprisingly rich park along Broad Run in Brambleton which combines several different habitat types including a rich flood plain on both sides of the stream, edge and meadow habitat, and multiple ponds. Parking information and meeting location will be emailed to registered participants. Bring binoculars if you have them. Note: This program is exclusively for young birders ages 10-18; a parent/guardian is welcome. Limit 15. Registration required
Questions: Contact Young Birding Program Coordinator Patrick Lewis at
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Herb Walk at JK Black Oak
2025-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | VA
Join us for an easy-paced herb walk and discussion through areas of JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary in Lucketts. Herb walks are a great way to spot and identify herbal plants in their natural habitats. If you’re familiar with bird walks, this works the same way — but with plants. We will be discussing medicinal uses for the plants, things about their unique growing behaviors and choice of habitats, pollinator benefits, folklore, and so much more. Walk leader Jerry Underhill is a member of the American Herbalist Guild, American Botanical Society and Plant Savers, and holds a degree in biomedical chemistry. Directions will be sent to registered participants a couple of days before the walk. Limit 10. Registration required
Note: Due to the environmentally sensitive habitat and rare species, JK Black Oak is not open for general public access.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Celebrate Birds: Birding Algonkian
2025-04-20 08:00 | Algonkian Park, 47001 Fairway Drive, Sterling, VA, 20165, United States
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on a search for birds at this large, popular park in eastern Loudoun with extensive frontage along the Potomac River. Its rich bottomland forests, extensive wetlands and grassy areas are home to numerous species of birds. We’ll comb the park searching for spring migrants, residents and waterfowl. Bring binoculars if you have them. We’ll meet in the parking lot near the boat ramp. Registration required.
Questions: Contact Bryan Henson at bhenson@loudounwildife.org.
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Celebrate Birds: Birding Sweet Run
2025-04-26 08:00 | Sweet Run State Park, 11661 Harpers Ferry Road, Purcellville, VA, 20132
Celebrate Birds with the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Virginia Society of Ornithology at Sweet Run State Park. We will explore three different areas of the park with three simultaneous walks. The park, in northwestern Loudoun County, has 894 acres of diverse habitat consisting of vernal pools, meadows, ponds, streams and a rich oak-hickory forest. It borders the Appalachian Trail and is only a couple of miles from the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. For these reasons Sweet Run is a wonderful sanctuary for Loudoun’s wildlife with numerous bird species utilizing its richness. The Park is located just north of Neersville (see map below). Directions can be found on the Park’s website. Registration Required.
Fee Notice: Sweet Run collects a parking fee via self-pay kiosks located at each parking area/entrance. The fee for a standard vehicle is $10. View fee information. A park pass can be borrowed from Loudoun County Public Library.
Questions: Contact Joe Coleman at jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
After the walks, hang around for Sweet Run State Park Earth Day Celebration: All About Birds from 11:00am to 2:00pm.
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Celebrate Birds: Birding Morven Park
2025-04-27 09:00 | Morven Park, 17195 Southern Planter Ln., Leesburg, VA, 20176
Join Carol Sottili and Molly Pinson Simoneau on a bird walk to explore Morven Park, a 1,000-acre preserve that hosts a historic mansion, two museums a renowned equestrian center, and a mosaic of natural habitats rich in wildlife. This walk is for beginning and experienced birders.
The ridge behind the Davis Mansion is the terminal end of the Catoctin Mountains and with that comes terrific and varied habitats, geological features and diverse wildlife. The land hosts a spectacular array of native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, from massive oaks to tiny ephemerals. Box Turtles roam the woods as do a variety of mammals, including coyotes, raccoons, opossums, bats and deer.
During spring, birds migrate through this area and refresh themselves in the thick forest before heading north to breed; the park in spring also welcomes a host of neotropical birds that come here to raise their young. During our walk, we hope to see not only our year-round resident birds, including woodpeckers, hawks, chickadees and bluebirds, but also recent arrivals, such as Scarlet Tanagers, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Ovenbirds and Northern Parulas. And perhaps we’ll be lucky to spy an American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush or another of the species just passing through. Limit 14. Parking information will be emailed to registered participants. Registration required
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Celebrate Birds: Goodstone Inn
2025-05-06 08:00 | goodstone Inn, 36205 Snake Hill Rd , Middleburg, VA, 20117
Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a bird walk at this private country estate in southwestern Loudoun. Goodstone Inn has trails along the Goose Creek and in surrounding fields and old woods just a couple miles north of Middleburg. Meet at the lower parking lot of the Inn. Limit 12. Registration required.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.

Celebrate Birds: Birding JK Black Oak
2025-05-07 07:30 - 10:00 | VA
Join Gerco Hoogeweg for a visit to this 89-acre property near Lucketts, which was purchased by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy in 2020. This bird walk will take us through the forest, across the meadows and past several of the vernal pools that make this such a unique place. Over 130 species of birds have been documented, and there is always a chance of discovering more during spring migration. Directions will be emailed to registered participants. To protect the environmentally sensitive habitat and rare species, JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary is not open for general public access. Limit 10. Registration required.
Questions: Contact Gerco Hoogeweg at ghoogeweg@loudounwildlife.org.
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Native Snakes of Loudoun
2025-05-08 19:00 | Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn, VA, 20147, United States
Snakes play an important role in maintaining the balance and diversity of native species. They keep rodent populations in check and in turn are preyed upon by other animals. While their time is spent filling basic biological needs (food, reproduction, regulating body temperature), they remain one of our most feared and misunderstood groups of animals. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Loudoun County Public Library at Ashburn Library for this introduction to our native snakes. You’ll learn how to identify them, and measures we can take to better understand and coexist with them. Registration requested.
Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.
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