Rare MacGillivray’s Warbler graces DWR’s Lake Shenandoah Pollinator Trail! We think of pollinator plantings as hosting, well, pollinators: bees, butterflies, moths, and other insects. Some birds, such as hummingbirds, do of course serve as pollinators though we generally don’t connect pollinator plantings with birds. But wait! By late fall, with their elegant flowering days in…
August 2018 photo of the Bird and Wildlife Trail sign at Silver Lake. Since then the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has been renamed the VA Department of Wildlife Resources and the Birding and Wildlife Trail program has dropped the “ing” in Birding to become the Bird and Wildlife Trail. A big “Thank…
Bird and Wildlife Trail Monitoring Project Background and Update for Headwaters Master Naturalists 2022 From project coordinator Sandy Greene What’s Not To Like? It’s an approved project statewide, with our HMN chapter an early adopter of our three loops in Augusta and Rockingham Counties. The goals of the 2004 project, the first statewide program of…
Sandy Greene on Being Good Enough! An appeal for Bird & Wildlife Trail site monitors for 2022 From the first project I took on at Headwaters Master Naturalists, I have been capitalizing on everyone else’s good energy and ideas: piggybacking on water monitoring projects, adding on to school field trips, grafting on to park plantings. …
Warblers & Wildflowers organizer Sandy Greene gives us the numbers, collaborations and take-aways from our May 2021 event celebrating spring on Shenandoah Mountain: N&Ns (Names and Numbers) Temperatures were only in the 50s on May 8th for our Mother’s Day Weekend Warblers and Wildflowers Event – a down (for the birds) or down-coat (for the…
Virginia Master Naturalist Headwaters Chapter 