Nine people showed up on a beautiful late summer morning for the regular (every 4th Saturday) bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. The beautiful sky and temperatures, which encouraged long sleeves and even a couple of jackets, had us hoping for some fall migrants and while we found a few, we […]

Join us on this monthly birdwalk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES), a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. A combination of meadows, streams and forested slopes makes BRCES home to a great variety of birds, butterflies and insects that feed and breed here. Meet at the Education Center; bring binoculars if […]

Ten people showed up on Saturday morning for the regular (every 4th Saturday) bird walk by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. With summer well underway, the birds were much quieter and less obvious than they have been recently but the butterflies made up for that. We did get some […]

Nine birders showed up at the Blue Ridge Center this morning for the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s regular (every 4th Saturday) monthly bird walk there. Forty-nine species of birds were found on a beautiful summer day after early morning downpours. With nesting season well along, many of the birds were heard and not seen but we […]

What better way to spend a June morning than on this monthly bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES), a beautiful 900-acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. A great variety of birds, butterflies and insects feed and breed here because the property includes diverse wildlife habitats, including meadows, streams and heavily forested […]

On the morning of May 27, 10 people gathered for Loudoun Wildlife’s regular (every 4th Saturday) monthly bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center of Environmental Stewardship in northwestern Loudoun County. We found 73 species of which the highlights included 11 warbler species, including dynamite looks at both Blue-winged and Kentucky Warblers, glimpses of a Cerulean, […]

Twelve people showed up at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship in northwestern Loudon for the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s regular (every 4th Saturday of the month) bird walk. After meeting at the Education Center on the north side we drove to the parking area at the end of Sawmill Rd. After walking there for a […]

Thirteen birders came for the monthly, 4th Saturday, birdwalk at Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship in Loudoun County. It was hot, above 80 at 8 am, and humid. We did the Farmstead Loop, which kept us in the shade most of the time. Birds were rather quiet and a total of 28 species were recorded as […]

While yesterday morning’s regular monthly bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship wasn’t very birdy, it was a beautiful, though chilly, morning for a walk outside and there were lots of signs of spring. The most obvious one was many Eastern Bluebirds, at least 15, singing and pair-bonding & in two or […]