Dreams of warmer days are lovely, but if you have trees in your yard or if they are in a nearby park, winter might also be the time to learn how to appreciate and protect their incredible beauty.

Do you like to write? Do you have ideas about bird and habitat conservation that would interest our readers? If so, we would love to have your help writing articles for the Potomac Flier.

Judy Gallagher is an ASNV board member and a regular surveyor of local wildlife who also captures photos of what she sees, in particular the less common species.

Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.

Judy Gallagher is an ASNV board member and a regular surveyor of local wildlife who also captures photos of what she sees, in particular the less common species.

As 2024 begins, I look ahead and I am thankful for birds. I appreciate their role in actions such as pollination, dispersal of seeds, production of guano fertilizer, and provision of food. But it is their intangible services that truly earn my gratitude.

It’s fairly common in residential neighborhoods to see trees surrounded by grass or by small mulch beds, often heaped high like a volcano. But did you know that your trees would be healthier and grow faster if you replaced that turf and those mulch volcanos with a 2-4” deep ring of mulch that extends out to the tree’s drip line or even beyond?

New year’s resolutions about more exercise and a better diet are traditional for this time of year, because those actions can help us live better, happier lives. But another way to improve your quality of life is by helping the birds.

Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.

I’ve asked myself on occasion what makes us birders?

Each year ASNV offers a full scholarship to Sharing Nature: An Educator's Week at Hog Island Audubon Camp in coastal Maine. Applications are open now!

Earlier this fall, we conducted a survey to learn how our members and friends feel about the possibility of changing the name of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia. If you participated, thank you!

Many people review and plan their charitable giving at this time of year. Making a donation typically may involve writing a check or using a credit card, but there are other options for planned giving, some of which can provide tax advantages for the donor.

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving more than 30 volunteers came together for a service project at Monticello Park in Alexandria.

Unfortunately, many people think English Ivy is a benign plant that grows in the shade where nothing else grows. 

The 124th Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place between this December 14 and January 5, 2024.

Judy Gallagher is an ASNV board member and a regular surveyor of local wildlife who also captures photos of what she sees, in particular the less common species.

Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.

Hope is winning out, even as I hear chainsaws and backhoes signal the demolition of yet another neighborhood house and all of its majestic oaks. I block out those sounds of destruction by recalling four hopeful ASNV sessions from the past few weeks.

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