Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy as we participate in National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. Begun in 1899, these surveys are held all over North America, with the results used to better understand bird populations and dynamics. Our count circle has a 15-mile diameter and covers 177 square miles of Loudoun’s countryside: north to Waterford, […]

by Joe Coleman Compiler, Central Loudoun CBC Overall, the results from the Central Loudoun CBC on December 28 were on the low average side with 91 species and 28,337 individuals. While it was a great winter day to be outside, almost all of the teams, built from 110 participants, reported that the numbers of species […]

Thank you for helping make the 2016 Central Loudoun Christmas Bird Count a great success! Without your help we wouldn’t have all this great data showing what is happening with birds in Loudoun in early winter. The following is a brief report on the overall count and what we found (if it doesn’t format correctly […]

See what species have been seen in past Christmas Bird Counts in Loudoun County. Summary of past data  Christmas Bird Count 2017 Christmas Bird Count 2016 Christmas Bird Count 2015 Christmas Bird Count 2014 Christmas Bird Count 2013 Christmas Bird Count 2012 Christmas Bird Count 2011 Christmas Bird Count 2010 Christmas Bird Count 2009 Christmas […]

18th Central Loudoun Christmas Bird Count ─ A Great Success! by Joe Coleman The 18th Central Loudoun Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, was held on December 27, 2014. One hundred people participating in the count found 96 species and 29,979 individuals, with the most unusual sightings being a first-ever Blue Grosbeak […]

Birding provides the best and worst of both  time and weather. Having ‘weathered’ the previous Sunday’s wet Central Loudoun Count, the Calmes Neck Count’s Sector 8 team started out at 5:00am, Sunday Jan 5th  near Round Hill. We were thrilled as the sky was full of stars for the  five early risers trying to listen […]

On Sunday, January 5, seven of us, in three teams in the morning and two in the afternoon, covered sector 10 of the Calmes Neck CBC. This sector stretches from Bluemont to Bloomfield and southeast to Unison in western Loudoun County. While the day started out clear, cold, and still, the freezing drizzle and later, freezing […]

The ten of us covering Sector 10 of the Calmes Neck CBC on Sat., Dec 28 found 65 species including all four of our local owls, an amazing 26 Red-headed Woodpeckers, a Rusty Blackbird, several Red-breasted Nuthatches, a flock of American Pipits, American Tree Sparrows, and watched a dozen Common Mergansers fly overhead. In addition to […]

Here’s a shot of one of the rare birds found on our Christmas Bird Count this year. Thank goodness it stands out in the crowd! This is only the second time that this bird species has been found on our count. While Lesser Black-backed Gull numbers are increasing along the east coast they are still considered unusual enough to […]

Over 110 birders participated in the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Central Loudoun CBC on Friday, Dec. 28. While a couple of reports are not in yet, species-wise this will the count’s best year (out of 16) with approx. 105 species observed, the first time this count has gone over a 100 species! And at end of […]