Archive for November, 2008
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Weekly Nature Quote…Van Gough
If you truly love nature,
you will find beauty everywhere.
- Vincent Van Gough
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Stream Lovers: Sterling couple finds monitoring Loudoun’s water rewarding
Some couples like to play golf, see a movie or visit museums. Scott and Lee Meyer of Sterling would add stream monitoring to their favorite list of couple activities. For the Meyers, wading into a Loudoun County stream in hopes of finding aquatic insects—benthic macro invertebrates or animals without backbones—is a great date.
“We believe we’re [...]
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
LWC Podcast - Episode 9: Bird Atlas Project
In this episode we are joined by Spring Ligi and Joe Coleman to talk about the Loudoun Bird Atlas Project that we just launched. This is a significant endeavor, collecting data on more than 295 bird species over the course of the next four years to find out where the birds are breeding and over [...]
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Excellent Free Guide to Managing Habitats
The American Bird Conservancy, the Piedmont Environmental Council, and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries have made available an excellent, detailed, 28-page guide entitled Managing Land in the Piedmont of Virginia for the Benefit of Birds and Other Wildlife.
This second edition now covers the entire piedmont of Virginia and provides specific habitat recommendations [...]
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Chilly Morning at BRCES but Still Good Birding
From Saturday, Nov 22….Only four of us showed up for the BRCES walk this rather cold morning (it was 24 when we started and 32 when we finished). The four of us first walked about a mile on the edge of the woods at the end of Sawmill and then did a mile loop in [...]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Weekly Nature Quote…Chief Seattle
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man…
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Dulles Greenway Announces LWC as recipient of Grant
Read about it here in their announcement flier. The funds from this grant have been instrumental in enabling us to expand our programs, engage in more habitat restoration events and reach more people across our county.
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Phillips Farm Tree Planting a Huge Success!
In spite of a forecast of impending heavy rains over 70 volunteers met at the Waterford Foundation’s Phillips Farm on November 15 and planted 300 trees and shrubs and destroyed a significant amount of invasive alien vegetation. The plantings were part of an ongoing effort to restore the riparian buffer along the South Fork Catoctin [...]
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Weekly Nature Quote…Emerson
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years,
as the snake his slough,
and at what period soever of life is always a child.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Golden Eagle over Banshee Reeks
On November 8, we had our monthly bird walk at Bashee Reeks. Mary Ann Good led the walk and the group had some great sightings - especially that of a Golden Eagle! (very cool!) Here is Mary Ann’s field trip report from that day as well as a photo of a kinglet:
About 15 birders enjoyed [...]
