On June 23th, Andy Rabin and Kevin Munroe led another great field trip to find and identify as many dragonflies and damselflies as they could. The group visited Bles Park, Claude Moore Park and Willowsford. A full list of the sightings (33 species) is below and reference of the first place they saw them during the day. […]

Last year Gerry Hawkins & Joe Coleman had a productive 47 species day visit to Bles Park on Columbus Day (Oct 10, 2011).  As a result the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy decided to schedule a Columbus Day walk at Bles this year. Nineteen people showed up this past Monday morning in spite of rather cool and […]

Robert & Cathey Daugherty led one of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s walks this past Saturday.  Eighteen people, many first-time birders, showed up for the walk which started at Bles Park, moved onto to scoping the Great Blue Heron rookery from the Loudoun County Parkway, and wrapped up at the Broadlands Wetlands Mitigation/Nature preserve off the Dulles Greenway […]

Five-birders enjoyed clear skies and seasonally cool weather during Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s walk at Bles Park on October 13.  Quite a few winter birds made themselves seen, including large numbers of White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows and Ruby-crowned Kinglets.  A slowly circling juvenile Bald Eagle also gave everyone good looks.  The complete tally: Canada Goose,  Great […]

Gerry Hawkins and I led one of the 10 bird walks we had going on last Saturday in celebration of International Migratory Bird Day. For our walk, we went all around Bles Park – from the fields to the wetlands to the river, and we had some wonderful views of different birds. We then went […]

Seven of us went out to Bles Park in Ashburn, Virginia on Saturday night for a fun night hike to look and listen for frogs.  This is just the second of such night hikes that we’ve done so far but they’re so much fun that we’ll definitely be doing more starting next spring when the […]

Vol. 14 Issue 1, Spring 2009 By Bonnie Eaton The first time I discovered Bles Park, I felt as though I’d stumbled upon a secret garden. It was late spring, early afternoon, between rains. I was escaping into the sunshine leaving the demands of my home office behind. A guilty pleasure. Driving the short distance […]

Andy Rabin led a family bird walk at Bles Park in eastern Loudoun Co on Saturday morning. Most of the warblers we saw were close and gave us great views.  The following is the report that we also posted on eBird: Location:     Bles Park Observation date:     10/4/08 Notes:     Andy Rabin led a Family Bird walk […]

We had a great day of hunting dragons and damsels across the fine Loudoun countryside! Seven people joined us as Andy Rabin and Kevin Munroe, both real experts in dragonflies and damselflies, took us out into the field. We started the day at 10am at Bles Park then went to Claude Moore at noon and ended the […]