Walt Childs will be leading a guided bird walk on the Rockfish Valley Trail on August 4, 2012. 8:00-10:00 a.m. - Meet at the kiosk at the Rockfish River trail...
At 9am 5 ducks. 3 standing on far shore of lower pond. Very dark rich brown,no facial features I could see. Then the other 2 flew past showing the blue wing...
On Sunday, 7/29, I was hiking the AT near Loft Mountain campground and heard at least 1 Bobwhite singing, possibly 2 birds. We heard the bird(s) singing a few...
Walt Childs and I birded some of the North River Loop in western Augusta County. Highlights included Chestnut-sided and Black-throated Blue Warblers, a...
For the past many weeks, I have been watching Carolina Wrens nesting on top of a wall lamp on the terrace outside my office. Yesterday around 12:00, I walked...
37 species this morning, including a Willow Flycatcher and a Purple Martin. Photos and report: http://www.symbolicmessengers.com/Blog2012/07_25_2012.htm ...
Walt Childs and I headed east to the Dutch Gap conservation area just south of Richmond and then 40 miles southeast from there to the The Nature Conservancy's...
Last Saturday morning, I walked the Rivanna river upstream from the Rte 15 bridge at Palmyra and was pleased to identify, among other stuff, a pair of Lousiana...
This morning at 9 AM I saw a Black crowned night heron at Oakencroft Vineyard pond. Oakencroft's entrance is from Garth Road. Drive in, cross the cattle guard...
I went to Rockfish Road this morning and saw two Dickcissels between Rte 617 (Round Hill School Road) and Rte 612 (New Hope-Crimora Road) near New Hope, VA....
More on the night herons at Oakencroft. I think it was July 2006 that Rob Capon and I found an immature Bl.Crowned Night heron at Oakencroft. At the time, a...
Sunday evening we had one male Scarlet T and two females floating through the trees out here. Today, heading into town [Waynesboro that is] two hen turkeys and...
They drained both ponds, yesterday I think. I was there in the late afternoon. 13 killdeer on the open mudflat. Bears watching for more shorebirds. The...
There was a gosling in one of our ponds this morning. http://www.symbolicmessengers.com/Blog2012/2012_07_10/gosling_E29206.jpg Isn't it a bit late in the year...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stauffermiller/ Last week Leigh Surkudowski and her husband Jim found a pair of immature White Ibis while canoeing the So. Rivanna...
I have been watching via BirdsEye and eBird the appearance around the country of multiple rare shorebirds these last few weeks, including Little Stint in Rhode...
33 species on the Rockfish Valley Trail this morning, including 3 warblers species (Yellow, LA Waterthrush, and Redstart), and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Report...
Joanne Bricker asked me to post this: You must treat yourself to this newest birding hotspot right here at the corner of State Farm Boulevard and South Pantops...
Hi Y'All: Here is the photo of the oft-reported Northern Harrier that lives at the farm at the intersection of Langhorne and Irish Roads in Scottsville. ...
Yesterday afternoon I stopped by the location where I found red-headed woodpeckers last week and heard their alarm calls within seconds of stepping outside of...
Walt Childs and I headed over to the Allegheny Mountains along the western edge of Highland County, Va. We saw 51 avian species, including five warbler...
There's a spot along Old Green Mountain Road, southern Albemarle, which is especially nice for warblers. I was lucky enough to photograph two there this...
Tom Jones' entry prompts me to share that I have found the Sawmill Ridge Overlook (9 miles north of the ranger station on the Drive) to be a consistently good...
I drove over to Lake Monticello this morning to try to see the Red-Headed Woodpecker that Gabriel reported a couple of weeks ago. The spot is off Rte. 53, on...
At the request of my wife who said that the pigeon was looking lonely - there has been a mostly white pigeon with a red leg band hanging around the Stoney...
