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When you have found a bird's nest, you have found him out. You have found the very center of his life, and his dearest secret. In the case of small, ground-nesting bird especially, the difference between secrecy and discovery is the difference between success and failure, life and death, continuance and oblivion...small wonder that birds hide their nests with every last evolved instinctual whit of cunning that they have.

- William Burt

 



 

A Great Place
 

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) was founded in 2000 by the Robert and Dee Leggett Foundation. It is 895 acres of diverse habitat consisting of vernal pools, meadows, streams and wonderful forests and it serves as a wonderful sanctuary for Loudoun wildlife.

There are historic cabins and homesteads on the property in addition to a community farm. We always enjoy a diversity of birds on our Birding the Blue Ridge Center bird walks. We see a wide variety of butterflies here as well, including the checkered skipper.

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy also maintains two great and prolific bluebird nestbox trails at the Blue Ridge Center.

You can read through field trip reports from our walks at the Blue Ridge Center on our blog.

The Blue Ridge Center is an amazing place to walk through over 10 miles of well marked trails, photograph wildlife, explore archeological sites and even enjoy the bounty of vegetables from the working farm.

Take a morning or afternoon to go for a nature walk, do some birding or hiking through the wonderful trails. A variety of environmental workshops and activities are offered.

When to Visit
 

Hours:
The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship is open to the public

Facilities:
There is a visitors center with rest rooms and cabins for camping

Click Here for the Trail Map

Website for more information and driving directions:
http://www.blueridgecenter.org/about/index.html

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