The MonticelloBirdAlert provides birders in Central Virginia with an opportunity to post sitings of rare and interesting birds spotted in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, and surrounding counties. Members of the group should only post sitings of birds that are sited on public property or viewed from public roadways. Members may also post a siting of a bird on private property, if the landowner has granted express permission for you to make such a posting to this group.
Hi Stauffer, I live in Carrsbrook and this spring I saw my very first black-billed cuckoo singing in the woods near the Rivanna. What is pretty awful though
This morning I got up to go to the bathroom at 6:15. While so engaged, I heard a sound from outdoors which electrified me-the soft, repetitive cu-cu-cu of a
I attended the Purple Martin field day today at Zions Crossroads in Fluvanna County. This was a great event. Our own Ron and Priscilla Kingston do a lot of the
Carol: Nice to hear from you. I was very lucky with the photos of the Goldfinch. I got two exposures and he was gone. But I loved getting a photo of a bird
Looks as if my previous response got corrupted somehow so I'll resend: I looked in "Virginia's Birdlife: An Annotated Checklist" put out by VSO in 2007.