Roanoke Valley Bird Club

 

 

Newsletters


 

Our club newsletter is published monthly September through May.

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

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

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

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

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 Colombian 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

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

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

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

May 2008
Mountain Lake Migratory Bird Festival and VSO Meeting · New Club Member · Thank you to Our Refreshment Committee · Roanoke Valley Bird Club 2009 Calendar · Birds of the Roanoke Valley · Field Trips · Field Notes · Sightings · Breeding Bird Survey Needs Volunteers · Great Backyard Bird Count Sets New Records · American Woodcocks Observed on Blue Ridge Parkway · Hummingbirds Arriving in April · Listen to the Mockingbird

September 2008
Harvey's Knob Hawkwatch Begins Sept 1 • 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 Northward

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

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

December 2008
The Christmas Bird Count • Field Trips • Field Notes • Sightings • First Sighting of Buff-breasted Sandpiper in Augusta County • VSO Pelagic Trip Friday – February 20, 2009 with Brian Patteson • Unusual Sightings from Project Feederwatch • How Does Bird-feeding Affect Birds?


 
 


 
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