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To register for the following field trips: Contact ASNV at (703) 256-6895 or
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. Trips fill up, so don't delay. In the unfortunate event you cannot attend your registered trip, please contact the ASNV office immediately. Others are eagerly awaiting an Audubon nature experience. Leaders Needed ASNV would like to add some new names to our roster of field trip leaders. You don’t have to be the world’s best birder—but if you have a favorite patch you know and love and would be willing to share your knowledge with others, we would like to hear from you. Likewise, if your passion is wildflowers, or insects, or herps, or any other aspect of the natural world, we would like to offer walks that will explore those areas as well. No need to worry that you don’t know how to lead a field trip; we can provide you with some training that will help build your confidence. If you would like to help others connect with nature, please contact Carol Hadlock,
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or 703-437-7451. Let’s Talk! To volunteer: contact
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or (703) 256-6895. Check out the area's birding hot spots you can visit any time. Upper Glade Stream Valley, Reston From the new Nature House on Glade Drive, we will walk down to the stream valley and go upstream, a stretch our walks have not previously covered. Gavin Small will lead. Getting there: From Reston Parkway, go east on Glade Dr. Park in Nature House parking lot or along Glade Dr | Sunday, Feb. 7, 7:30-10:30 AM | Southern Maryland This all-day field trip to Solomons, Maryland and Point Lookout State Park with trip leader Sean Duffy, will depart Fairfax County at 7:15 AM, arrive at Point Lookout by about 9:00, bird northbound all day, and arrive back in FX Co. by about 7PM. Target birds are sea ducks (ducks of all kinds) and raptors, as well as loons, grebes, cormorants, pelicans, gulls (maybe terns), grassland birds, short-eared owl, and brown-headed nuthatch. Email Sean to sign up and receive further details at
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(car pool locations, other logistics). Limit 14. Registration required. | Sunday February 14, All Day | Don’t forget the Great Backyard Bird Count, February 12-15, 2010. You can count birds anywhere—in your backyard, your neighborhood, your local parks. The more people counting and reporting, the better picture we get of the bird populations where we live and bird. Visit www.birdsource.org/gbbc to learn how to participate. | | Riverbend Park Walk along the river in search of wintering waterfowl, winter birds in the woods and possible Bald Eagle. Leaders: Jay and Carol Hadlock. Getting there: From Georgetown Pike (Rt. 193) east of Great Falls, take Riverbend Rd. to Jeffrey, and Jeffrey to the park entrance. Meet in the upper parking lot of the Visitor Center. | Sunday, Feb. 21, 9:00 AM-Noon | Waterfowl and Raptors Tour of Reston Kevin Munroe leads this outing every winter and every year surprising things turn up on Reston’s lakes. Getting there: Meet at the Lake Audubon Boat Ramp on Twin Branches Rd., near the intersection with Glade Drive. If the birding is good, the time and number of sites may be extended, but participants should feel free to leave when they wish. | Sunday, Feb. 28, 7:30-10:30 AM |
Recurring Field Trips Several parks in the area have established year-round weekly field trips, including: | Location | Time | Leader |
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| Butterfly and Dragonfly Surveys, Occoquan Bay NWR Details Here | Fridays, 8:30 - noon | Jim Waggener | Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve | 2nd Saturday every month, 8:00 AM | Various | Dyke Marsh | Sundays, 8:00am | Various | | Eakin Park | Mondays, 7:00 a.m. March-Nov., 7:30 a.m. Dec - Feb | Carolyn Williams | | Great Falls, Virginia | Sundays, 8:00am | Various | Huntley Meadows Park | Mondays, 7:00am | Andy Higgs | Occoquan & Meadowood Wildlife Surveys Details Here | Wednesday mornings | Jim Waggener | Prince William Forest Park
| Every weekend in spring and early summer
| See details at www.nps.gov/prwi
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