Archive for August 17th, 2008
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Phillips Farm - Habitat Restoration Event Follow-up
This coming Wednesday, August 20, at 9:00 am, LWC plans to again remove mile-a-minute from around the stream buffer shrubs that were planted on March 1 at the Phillips Farm in Waterford. We’ve been able to control the invasives from around the shrubs but think we need to remove them at least one more time [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Dragonflies and Damselflies at Banshee Reeks - The August Walk
Andy Rabin led our walk at Banshee on Saturday. Here is his report from the field:
The walk yesterday went very well. We had 9 people show up, including 2 families (3 kids). We managed to catch a few damselflies and a dragonfly and examine them closely, found a recently emerged Calico Pennant on some emergent vegetation [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Saturday’s Morning Walk at the Dulles Wetlands
I was out working with Meg Findley, Otto Gutenson and David Ward filming a surprise for you all so I missed this walk but did receive a report from Joe Coleman (below). Definitely sounds like we’re starting our transition of the seasons:
Except for one very surprising highlight, a flyover dark morph SNOW GOOSE, Saturday morning’s walk, [...]
