Saturday morning’s walk at Banshee Reeks was attended by 13 birders, led by Joe Coleman and Mary Ann Good. Before the walk, four of us also surveyed the nearby Dulles Wetlands for 2 hours. The increasing exposed mud at the wetlands has attracted numbers of Killdeer but no other shorebirds yet. Large numbers of young […]
Approx. 15 birders joined Laura Weidner and Mary Ann Good for the monthly (2nd Sat.) bird walk at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Prior to the 8:00 walk, Mary Ann and Gerry Hawkins spent 45 minutes surveying the nearby Dulles Wetlands for LWC’s Loudoun Co. Bird Atlas. We were pleased […]
Five people showed up for our Wednesday morning bird walks at the Dulles Greenway Wetlands Mitigation Project (7 am) and the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve (9 am). There were several highlights among the 60+ species we observed. It was a real pleasure to hear Virginia Rails almost as soon, about 6:30 am, as we […]
Three intrepid birders went out on our Birding Banshee walk this past Saturday. Here’s the report from Joe Colemen: The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s policy is to hold its scheduled bird walks, rain or shine, unless it’s dangerous but we don’t expect a lot of people if the weather is lousy. This past Saturday morning three […]
On this past Saturday’s regular monthly Banshee Reeks walk, co-sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee Reeks, and co-led by the Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS), sixteen people found 45 species of birds. Notes: The highlight of the walk was finding a WOODCOCK in one of Banshee’s many hedgerows; someone heard scurrying […]
The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy sponsored a visit to the Dulles Greenway Wetlands Mitigation Project on the morning of Saturday Feb 14 , once at 7 am and once about 10:45 am. In between we co-sponsored a walk with the Friends of Banshee Reeks to the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve. 22 people were on the various walks. […]
Sixteen people showed up for our Saturday (1/10) morning bird walk at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve. The highlights of the 40 species were a couple of BROWN CREEPERS and a WINTER WREN. Birds seen: Canada Goose, Wood Duck, American Black Duck, Mallard, Hooded Merganser (actually in pond on Evergreen Mill Rd across from The […]
Ten of us joined Joe Coleman and Gerry Hawkins on Saturday for the monthly walk at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve in Loudoun County. We had a total of 38 species (including 7 different sparrow species). The walk included nice looks at American Kestrel, both kinglets, numerous Eastern Bluebirds and a Fox Sparrow. Missing from our […]
On November 8, we had our monthly bird walk at Bashee Reeks. Mary Ann Good led the walk and the group had some great sightings – especially that of a Golden Eagle! (very cool!) Here is Mary Ann’s field trip report from that day as well as a photo of a kinglet: About 15 birders […]
The highlights of this past Saturday’s morning walk, co-sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy & the Friends of Banshee Reeks, and attended by 18 birders, was a flyover flock of 7 vocal COMMON RAVENS, a couple of different groups of migrants, including warblers & vireos busily feeding, a couple of SCARLET TANAGERS, and numerous BALTIMORE ORIOLES. […]