Sat 27 Feb 2010
Tree Seedlings and Rain Barrel Sale
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Spring really will be here soon and as an indication of that – the Loudoun Soil and Water Conservation District is accepting orders for their annual tree seedling sale! They will also have rain barrels for sale (see below). You can find out more information about this and other initatives they have for spring on the Loudoun Soil and Water website but here’s the information on this particular sale in their own words:
The young, bare-rooted seedlings are well suited to Virginia soils and climate. Tree species available this year include White Pine, Norway Spruce, White Dogwood, Redbud, River Birch, Sycamore, Shumard Oak, and Paw Paw. The shrub species this year are Indigobush and Silky Dogwood. The White Pine are $25 for a bundle of 50 seedlings and the Norway Spruce are $35 for a bundle of 50 seedlings. The hardwood species, as well as the shrubs, are offered at $6 for 5 seedlings. Sales tax of 5.0% must be included.
Click on the link 2010-seedling-sale to download an order form You can also call or stop by the office for an order form. Pre-paid orders will be filled on a first come-first serve basis. The deadline for pre-paid orders will be Friday, March 12th. The pick-up date for the seedlings will be Friday, March 26, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the LSWCD office on Catoctin Circle in Leesburg (the Wachovia Bank building). We recommend that you plant the seedlings as soon as possible to minimize transplant stress.
The District will also have pre-assembled rain barrels available for purchase on pick-up day at $65 each. If you have any questions, please call the LSWCD office at 703/771-8395 (8:00 am – 5:00 pm).

The first is to take a walk outside your house and look at your windows from a bird’s perspective. They fly into the windows because the windows are reflecting the sky and it looks to them as though they can fly right through. If you’ve had window strikes in the past, first take a look at these windows and get a feel for what the birds are seeing, but check all your windows. The windows with the most strikes are likely to be those that get the most reflection and are far enough away from trees that the birds can get up a good speed to head off into what they see as sky.
Good binoculars will have two adjustments, your focus wheel, which lets you focus in on the bird or other creature that you’re observing, and the diopter ring (or diopter adjuster). The diopter is something that you basically just set and forget about but it’s really important to making your binoculars function well for you.
the ring clicks into an “up” position and you can feel it click through different settings as you turn it. On others, it’s a ring that turns. The photos here show both styles and there may be others too. In any case, set the diopter ring to the Zero or center setting so you’re starting there.
further understand how binos work and how to make them work best for you.
When going out butterfly watching, the key is to have binoculars that can give you good close focus.
The binocular makers have been working with this for ages so if you wear glasses but also want to use binoculars, not to worry. Many binoculars have either a rubber piece that folds up at the eye piece or the barrel of the eye piece rotates up, giving your eye distance from the glass of the eye piece itself.
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butterfly) will seem 8 times closer to you when you look through the binoculars.
Lens coating is the super thin layer of fluid that is applied to the glass by the maker of the binoculars.