to Monticello Bird Alert subscribers--I went to the top of Jarmans Gap this morning, hoping to hear Ruffed Grouse, but did not hear any. If anybody who sees...
I saw what I'm pretty sure was a Merlin this morning. It was in a treetop over Coles-Rolling Road, near the intersection with Glendower. This is the same spot...
Hi Y'All: Stauffer and I heard Louisiana Waterthrush along the Sugar Hollow Road. As you are driving towards the reservoir, about 2/3 to the dam site you'll...
Visible from Half Mile Branch Road, west of Crozet, on April 8th, was a shallow, grass edged pond in a horse pasture, at which Rob Capon and I found one Gr....
Rob Capon and I visited several ponds near Crozet this afternoon, getting ourselves intermittently rained on. At the Half Mile Branch Pond we found one Dunlin,...
At the same pond Saturday morning, I also saw the Pectoral Sandpipers, Snipe, kingfisher, a coot, and two pair of Wood Ducks. Beaver Creek Reservior had a...
Hi Y'All: This is just a short note to let you know that four of us (Stauffer, Gretchen, Cricket and I) are planning a Big Day on May 1st. We're going to...
This morning I visited the pond along Half Mile Branch Road, Crozet, which has been so interesting. Large numbers of swallows were there, and at times they...
Forgot to mention in my post of earlier today, but several Common Loons were at Beaver Creek Reservoir this morning. I got a photo of one and attach it....
I spoke with several people at the King Vineyard next to the pond yesterday. It has been built through a partnership of the King family and Ducks Unlimited...
Jon, Go right ahead and talk to him. If there are questions you cannot answer you can refer him to me or John Zimmerman, field trip chair. Jenny Jon Nafziger...
Hi Y'All: After our Field Ornithology class, Gretchen and I went over to "Pond #2" in Crozet in the Old Trails subdivision. This is the very natural pond...
Hi All: I was on Observatory Hill this morning about 10:00 a.m., and saw a rather impressive kettle of about 15-20 Broad-winged Hawks fly over. I wonder if ...
Hi All: Stauffer and I went back to Old Trail Pond #2 looking for the American Bittern. There was no sign of the bird. However we did see the following...
Hummer update. Ten minutes after I said none seen, the first male appeared on our feeder. Also arriving today - our resident chimney swifts. ... -- Jim...
We saw our first hummer on Saturday also. Gretchen Gehrett G2 Marketing (434)293-5544 www.G2Marketing.net ... From: Roberta Nevitt [mailto:rnevitt@...] ...
Howdy! The King family has kindly allowed me to set up a blind by the pond in hopes I can catch something good. I ask that nobody approach the blind so the ...
I also saw the palm warbler today along with yellow rumped warbler, green heron, lesser scaup, coot, meadowlark, red winged blackbird and a family of Canada...
Can anyone id this sparrow. He has a rusty cap, white throat and grey around the eyes with a clear breast. My guess is a field sparrow but he doesn't have a...
The Old Trail pond also had a pair of Northern Orioles this a.m., bluebirds nest-building, and a grasshopper sparrow between the pond and the road. Jon...
The grasshopper sparrow posed beautifully for me this morning at Old Trail. I also saw a couple of catbirds as well as the previous birds seen there. Victoria ...
Late morning at pond 2 I found the northern orioles plus some very approachable kingbirds and tree swallows. The osprey photos aren't great but may be of some...
