More than 150 members, family, and friends joined in the celebration of Loudoun Wildlife’s 20th year at the Annual Meeting Sunday, May 31, at Morven Park. Predicted showers held off a day, allowing hikers to explore Morven on a nature walk and gardeners to acquire a few more native perennials for their pollinator-friendly plantings, as […]

Lori Berry led her girl scout troop #458 in setting up a Monarch Waystation at Morven Park in Leesburg VA this past June. As the wrap up of their project they produced this video to help share the accomplishment. Here’s the video: httpv://youtu.be/vwVhHpYjSOs This waystation has been absolutely incredible in terms of productivity -Monarchs, Zebra Swallowtails, […]

Sharon Kearns just sent over the field report from the IMBD walk at Morven Park – nice sightings! From Sharon: Friday May 11th was a beautiful albeit windy day for an IMBD walk in the area of Morven Park. Mary Ann Good, Sally Snidow, Sidney Lissner and Sharon Kearns enjoyed checking out the pond at the […]

Now I’m not talking about a physical white M like a billboard or a sign or anything……nope….I’m talking about a neat little butterfly called a White M Hairstreak that as caterpillars feeds on oaks as it’s host plant. While it would seem like we should have this butterfly around rather commonly, the sighting this past week is only […]

Eight birders, led by Sharon Kearns & assisted by Joe Coleman, visited the 1,000-acre Morven Park on Monday morning for one of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s International Migratory Bird walks.  Morven Park is a large property which is not only the historic home of Governor Westmoreland Davis but includes several hundred acres of mature forest […]