The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) is a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. With its diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested slopes, BRCES draws a wide variety of birds and other creatures. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on our monthly walk, and see what’s there! Meet at the Education […]

Beagle Club/Institute Farm on Wednesday, May 16. Join us for a special bird walk led by Emily Southgate, Linda Millington, and Carole Miller. We have special permission to visit the Institute Farm, the home of the National Beagle Club of North America, and on the National Register of Historic Places.  The farm’s brushy, scrubby intermediate habitat, bordered […]

Spend a full day with naturalist Joette Borzik, learning bird song in the field on the trails of the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. Some basic birding knowledge is a prerequisite, i.e. being able to identify some of the local common birds by sight. Birding knowledge need not be extensive, but enthusiasm and interest […]

Volume 23 Issue 1, Spring 2018 by Steve Allen Fans of The Big Year, Mark Obmascik’s account of three birders attempting the 1998 North American Big Year, know it is a highly competitive enterprise. Those who attempt it must crisscross the continent multiple times in an effort to see every bird that sets foot in North America. As we learn early […]

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) is a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. With its diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested slopes, BRCES draws a wide variety of birds and other creatures. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on our monthly walk, and see what’s there! Meet at the Education […]

Join John DeMary, well-known local naturalist and retired teacher, on a Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy field trip to explore Balls Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, a beautiful, wooded riverside park, for the early spring wildflowers that enrich the Potomac River Valley. We will also watch for early migrating birds. If you own binoculars, please bring them. Questions: […]

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) is a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. With its diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested slopes, BRCES draws a wide variety of birds and other creatures. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on our monthly walk, and see what’s there! Meet at the Education […]

Witness the incredible courtship display of the woodcock, one of our most fascinating avian residents. On this Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy outing, we will watch and listen for the woodcock’s “pent” at the Institute Farm near Aldie. Registration required. Questions: Contact Emily Southgate at ewbsouthgate@gmail.com. “Woodcock” by Rodney Campbell is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) is a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. With its diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested slopes, BRCES draws a wide variety of birds and other creatures. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on our monthly walk, and see what’s there! Meet at the Education […]

Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy on a winter raptor search. We will drive the back roads of Loudoun County with frequent stops to find and identify the many hawks, and an owl or two, who winter here. Space is limited so please register early. Questions: Contact info@loudounwildlife.org.