Our
club newsletter is published monthly September through
May.
March 2010
Gala
Wetlands Access for Club Members • What to do when You Find a Bird in Trouble • What kind of Bird Seed to Buy? • Bird Count Yields Seventy-five Species • Two Corporations Convicted Under Migratory Bird Act • Raptor Count Results
February 2010
Rusty
Blackbird Blitz • Roanoke Christmas Bird Count • Fincastle and Peaks of Otter Christmas Bird Counts • Frostbitten Pelicans Arrive at Tri-State Rescue • Evolution in the Backyard
January 2010
RVBC
2010 Club Officers • Thanks to Everyone Who Provided Refreshments • Thanks for a Successful Seed Sale • Girl Scout Duck Walk Thank You • Field Trips • Sightings • Great Backyard bird Count, Feb. 12-15 • Counting Chimney Swifts • What's that Twittering in My Chimney? • Book Review: A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountain National Park • Winter Bird Feeding Tips • Winter Raptor Count Sheet
December 2009
Remembering Peggy Spiegel Opengari • Volunteers Needed for Girl Scout Duck Walk • Field Trips • Weekend Field Trip in VA Beach • Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory (Cuba) Birding Survey • Field Notes • Sightings • Birds of Roanoke Valley: New Edition Planned • Anthropogenic Structures • City of Roanoke Becomes Greener • Buy Groceries and Support Local Land Trusts • Establishment of the Blue Bird Highway • Many Unusual Sightings So Far this Fall • Roanoke Valley Christmas Bird Count Census Form
November
2009
Volunteers Needed
for Girl Scout Duck Watch • Harvey’s Knob Hawkwatch Update
Field Trips • Field
Notes • Sightings • Join Us for the Christmas Bird Counts • Rehabilitated Eared Grebe Takes Flight • 2009 Bluebird Trail Results • Weekend Birding Field Trip, VA Beach • In the Bluebird Beginning • Project Feederwatch Begins November 14 • Blackpoll Warblers: Marathon Travelers • Whooping Cranes Head South
October
2009
RVBC Seed Sale Fund
Raiser • What You Can Do to Help Birds • Rare Shorebird Found in Staunton
Sept
2009
Tribute to a Friend • Board
Notes • Barry Kinzie Awarded National Society of the DAR Conservation Medal • Harvey's Knob Hawkwatch Begins Sept. 1 RVBC 2010
RVBC 2010 Calendar Submissions Due • The
Big Sit! • Field Trips • Field Notes • Sightings • Coalfields Folk Life Festival • Birding in Ohio • 39th Annual Big Spring Day at the Peaks of Otter • Big Spring Day at the Peaks of Otter • Eastern Cougar Foundations Needs Funding • Rare and Unusual Birds Discovered in Augusta County • New Spotted Owl Recovery Plan
May 2009
RVBC 2010 Calendar • Coalfields
Folk Life Festival • Breeding Bird Survey Needs Volunteers
April
2009
RVBC
Picnic • Big Spring Day •Raptor Count Correction • VSO Annual Meeting • VSO Piney Grove Trip • Dr. Rupet Cutler Appointed to City Council • Plover Volunteers Needed • For Quail and other Grassland Birds a Little Habitat Goes a Long Way • Culpeper Basin IBA • Return a Baby Bird to Its Nest
March
2009
Bluebird
Trail Monitoring Signup • VA Master Naturalist Program • Suet Recall Alert • Alert: Some Pine Siskins Dying at Feeders • Book Review: John James Audubon •Put a Songbird on Your Shopping List • On the Move North • Migrating Birds flyer Faster than Scientists Thought
February
2009
Christmas
Bird Count Highlights • Deadly Lighing • Fatal Light Awareness Program Great Backyard Bird Count • Virgil Caine Spends Winter in Highland Co. • Life Bird Quest for Snowy Owl
January
2009
Above
and Beyond • RVBC 2009 Officers • Backyard Neighbors • Field Trips • Sightings • Harvey's Knob Hawkwatch Update • Calliope Hummingbird Sighted in Lynchburg • Ferrum Nature Society Franklin County Winter Bird Count • VSO Winter Field Trip • Rusty Blackbird Blitz • Rockfish Gap Hawkwatch • Got White-winged Crossbills? • Fall Season Yields Book Breakers • How Birds Survive Cold Weather • Juncoes Feed on the Ground • VSO's Principles of Ethics
December
2008
Christmas Bird
Count Results • Buff-breasted Sandpiper Sighting • VSO Pelagic Trip • Unusual Sightings from Project Feerwatch • How Does Bird feeding Effect Birds?
November
2008
New
RVBC • Members • Harvey's
Knob Hawkwatch Update • Virginia's Birdlife: An Annotated Checklist • Field Trips • Field Notes • Sightings • Brown Booby Sighted at Claytor /Lake • Red-headed Woodpeckers Migrating Past Rockfish Gap • Volunteers Needed for Girl Scout Duck and Habitat Watch • 2008 Bluebird Monitoring Results • Thanksgiving Window Watch Count • Project FeederWatch Begins November 8 • Winnie the Whimbrel Update • Bar-tailed Godwit Breaks Record • Are Golf Courses Good Habitat for Eastern bluebirds? • Fisherman Island National Wildlife Tours • Managing Land in the Piedmont of Virginia • Francis Beidler Forest, South Carolina: A Rare Ancient Forest
October
2008
RVBC
Annual Seed Sale Fundraiser Form • Welcome
New Members • Harvey's Knob Hawkwatch Update • RVBC Bird Club Calendar for Sale • Field Trips • Field Notes • Sightings • Shorebirds at Chincoteague: Patterns of Migration on the Virginia Coast • Search for the Ivory-Bill Ends for the Season
September
2008
Harvey's
Knob Hawkwatch • For
the Love of Nature • Conservation Easement at Carvins Cove • Birding Access to WPCP • The Big Sit! • Field Trips • Field Notes • Sightings • Big Spring Day Results • Wildlife Center of Virginia Fall Open House • Eastern Shore Birding & Wildlife Festival • Northern Boreal Forest Conservation • Whimbrel Flies Non-stop for 146 Hours • Cold Weather Survivors • Outwitting Bully Birds • How Bird Feathers Get Their Colors • Some Bird Species Extending Breeding Range
April
2008
RVBC Annual Picnic, August 17 · Field
Trips · Big Spring Day · Field Notes · Sightings · To See Every Bird On Earth · Red-cockaded Woodpecker Benefit from Conservation Incentives · Nightjar Survey Network · Save the Red Knot · Lights Off! · Some Bird Species Already Nesting
March
2008
Field Trips · Woodcock
Watch · Locher Tract · Field Notes · Sightings
Raptor Count Tally · Update
on Boreal Bird Irruptions · Rare Bird Sightings in Virginia · 2007 Record-Breaking Hawk Watch · Harvey’s Knob Hawk Watch Totals 1977-2007
February
2008
Bill Grant’s Outreach Program · Warbler
Trail Development · Field Trips · Field Notes · Sightings · Christmas Bird Count Tallies · Are Evening Grosbeaks Making a Comeback? · Birds of August County, 3rd Edition · Virginia Master Naturalist Program in Bedford/Franklin County · Birdwatchers Flocking to See Rare Bird
January
2008
Board Notes · Above
and Beyond · New Members · Field Trips · Annual Raptor Count · Christmas Bird Count HIghlights · Sightings · Townsend’s Solitaire Sighting at Harvey’s Knob · Central Columbian Habitat for Cerulean Warbler Saved · More Unusual Sightings from Project FeederWatch · Story of a Hawk Watcher · Northern Saw-whet Owls Arriving in Large Numbers · Watch for These Birds at Your Feeders
December
2007
Board Notes · Seed
Sale Fund-Raiser Totals · Audubon Print Raffle Winners · Virginia Living Magazine Highlights · VSO Field Trip · Field Trips · The Christmas Bird Count Roanoke Valley/Fincastle/Peaks of Otter · Field Notes · Sightings · Unusual Sightings from Project FeederWatch · Tips for Feeding Birds in Winter · Ribbon of Blackbirds Augusta Bird Club Field Trip
November
2007
Fund Raiser Raffle: Framed Audubon Prints · Seed
Sale on November 3rd · Board Notes · Field Trips · Field Notes · Sightings · Bluebird Stats · Shade-Grown Coffee Benefits Songbirds · Rock Pigeons Evolved from Wild Population
October
2007
Annual Seed Sale Fund Raiser · Order
Form · Fund Raiser Raffle: Framed Audubon Prints · Field Trips · Field Notes · Sightings · Bird Watchers Look for Changes in Climate · Seventy Days and Nights
September
2007
Board Notes · Fund
Raiser Raffle · Annual Seed Sale Fund Raiser · The Big Sit · Field Trips · Field Notes · Sights and Songs · Book Review: The Singing Life of Birds · Big Spring Day Results · The Grain Table · A Bird in Your Hand · Brown-headed Cowbirds Visit My Feeder · Pelagic Birding
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