To do for next year: get pix of phyllaries!
- Multiple visits to Walker Nature Center, Reston, Fairfax County, Va.—now that I have figured out that I can walk to it
- Roundtree Park and Turkey Run Park, both in Fairfax County, Va., led by Margaret Chatham
- Mason & Bailey Club auxiliary walk: Peirce Mill loop, Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. (plus scouting)
- Lichens walks with Natalie Howe and Tom McCoy: Woodend Sanctuary, Chevy Chase, Montgomery Count, Md., Patuxent Research Refuge, Prince George’s County, Md., and Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Great Backyard Bird Count 2023 at the Glade and Lexington Estates Park, Fairfax County, Va.
- Geology of the Piedmont, with Andrew Eberly and Bridget Bradshaw, Fauquier County, Va.
- Conway Robinson State Forest, Prince William County, Va., Nancy Vehrs leader
- Meadowood Special Recreation Area, birding with Tom Nardone
- C&O Canal at Monocacy Aqueduct, leaders Marney Bruce and Anne DeNovo
- Hawksbill Mountain, Shenandoah National Park
- At the Clifton Institute (Fauquier County, Va.), show-and-tell (and a little do) American Kestrel research, Eastern Box Turtle research, and Barn Owl banding
- City Nature Challenge at the Glade
- Southside Virginia
- Nelson DeBarros led walks at an acidic seepage swamp and a power line easement
- Deerfield Farm, Upperville, Fauquier County, Va.
- Sweet Run State Park, Loudoun County, Va.
- Clifton Institute-sponsored odonate and butterfly counts, Fauquier County, Va.
- “the grass bunch” at Riverbend Park, Fairfax County, Va., and Glencarlyn Park, Arlington County, Va.
- Merrimac Farm WMA, Prince William County, Va.—nearly missed Nancy and Harry
- Two Owls Farm bioblitz, Fauquier County, Va.
- Sacramento County and nearby, Calif.
- Deep Cut Meadow, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Prince William County, Va., Bert Harris and VNPS folks leading
- a very rainy NABA count at Huntley Meadows Park and other Alexandria sites
- Riverside Preserve pollinator bioblitz, Fauquier County, Va., led by Bert Harris
- Little Bennett Regional Park (Hyattstown Mill), led by Sujata Roy
- Valedictory walks with Stephanie Mason at Rock Creek Park (with some side discussions about tooth-leaved virburnums) and the C&O Canal from Widewater to Great Falls
- Southwest Virginia
- Tidewater Virginia
- Cleveland, O. area
- Miami, Champaign, and Adams Counties, O.
- Lichens on Wildcat Mountain, Fauquier County, Va., with Bert Harris
- Another Nature Forward foray, this time with Lisa Shannon and Rob Hilton, to Occoquan Bay NWR—that light industrial access road amuses me
- Seneca and Central Loudoun CBCs
Another middling successful season of monitoring nest boxes at Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County, Va. I have also joined the Monday morning bird walks (with plant detours with Nancy) from time to time.