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Journey North App – for iPhone and Droid
Here’s an App you need! Just released from Journey North – this lets you report your sightings: Go Mobile With Journey North Take Journey North outside with the new citizen science app for your mobile...
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Celebrate Save the Frogs Day – April 27th
Frogs are neat animals – they fill our evenings with great choruses, they eat lots of insects, and the are really fun to watch. But as you know, they are really having a tough time making it right now...
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Is Your Hummingbird Feeder Up?
No? Well get busy! Go pull it out of the basement or garage, clean it off, and fill ‘er up with sugar water (1 part white sugar to 4 parts water). I just hung mine out today after seeing the sightings...
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Project Feeder Watch starting up for Fall again!
When I first moved to Loudoun and had a place of our own, the first thing I did (even before the house was finished being built) was to put up a bird feeder. I then discovered Cornell’s Project...
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Kids ART classes at Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship–Sign up now!
What’s better than kids discovering nature? Kids discovering nature through art! Sign your kids (ages 5-8) up for a wonderful, nature-inspired art class offered by and held at the beautiful Blue Ridge...
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Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are Heading our Way!
The latest reports from Journey North show that Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are just south of us! They usually arrive here in Loudoun around April 15th so now is a good time to dig out your feeder,...
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Is Your Hummingbird Feeder Up?
If not, it’s time!! Here’s snapshot of the sightings that people have posted on Journey North – visit their site to see the details and to submit your own sightings. They’re just south of us and could...
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See a Monarch? Please Report Your Sighting to Us!
Please report your Monarch sightings to us (nhamilton@loudounwildlife.org) and post it to Journey North (https://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/Gallery.html) — they’ll show up on a map — the data is so...
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Reading the Tea Leaves — the Monarch Migration
Dr. Chip Taylor, Director of Monarch Watch, based in Kansas, sent over this note earlier in the week. In it he provides some great insights into understanding the Monarch migration and how it’s...
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Are You Raising & Releasing Monarchs this summer?
Monarchs are flying through Loudoun! They are laying eggs and caterpillars are growing! If you plant milkweed and native nectar plants in your garden you may attract them. You can just enjoy them but...
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