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Meet Your Local Birds of Prey

Meet Your Local Birds of Prey

Jan 14, 2025

Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Secret Garden Birds and Bees’ Liz Dennison to meet live birds of prey — just...

Two Raptor Programs to Learn About Predatory Birds

Two Raptor Programs to Learn About Predatory Birds

Sep 18, 2023

This month Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy sponsored two programs about raptors, which are always crowd favorites. Liz Dennison talks about Great...

Meet Your Wildest Neighbors: Raptors of Virginia, Maryland, and DC

Meet Your Wildest Neighbors: Raptors of Virginia, Maryland, and DC

Dec 13, 2021

Liz and Tim Dennison with Scarlett and Hodor. Photo by Michael Sciortino It was an evening of wonderful raptors on...

Searching For Birds of Prey

Feb 8, 2020

Instructor Liam McGranaghan Photo by Laura McGranaghan The adventure started with a class taught by raptor expert Liam McGranaghan on...

Raptors and Sparrows at Banshee Reeks Walk

Oct 15, 2019

Sharp-shinned Hawk Photo by Gerco Hoogeweg The day started damp and overcast for the 17 birders who joined Larry Meade...

Bold, Beautiful, Big Red-tails

Aug 8, 2019

Volume 24 Issue 3, Summer 2019 An adult Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) soars above its Loudoun hunting grounds Photo by...

Barn Owls – Our Ghost Birds

Oct 1, 2016

Vol. 21 Issue 3, Fall 2016 by Nicole Hamilton This past summer, I got a text on my phone. It...

Winter Owls

Dec 1, 2013

Short-eared Owl Photo by Liam McGranahan Vol. 18 Issue 4, Winter 2013 By Liz Dennison, Raptor Conservancy of Virginia During...

Backyard Hawks: Coops and Sharpies

Jan 1, 2011

Vol. 16 Issue 4, Winter 2011 By Elizabeth Dennison, The Raptor Conservancy of Virginia Cooper's Hawk takes a backyard squirrel...

Golden Eagles

Jan 1, 2009

Vol. 14 Issue 4, Winter 2009 By Liam McGranaghan In recent years there has been a marked increase in the...

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