Most of my outings are walks rather than hikes these days.
- Multiple visits to Walker Nature Center, Reston, Fairfax County, Va.
- With Virginia Native Plant Society Potowmack Chapter (including “the grass bunch”), at Huntley Meadows Park (and), Runnymede Park, Wakefield Park (and), Confederate Fortifications Historic Site, Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, Roundtree Park, Elklick Woodlands NAP&—all Fairfax County, Va.; and Fort C. F. Smith Park, Arlington County, Va.
- With Nature Forward, Lake Artemesia, Prince George’s County, Md.; Green Ridge State Forest, Allegany County, Md.; Eastern Neck NWR, Kent County, Md.; Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington, D.C.; Pennyfield Lock, Montgomery County, Md. (and); National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.; Violette’s Lock, Montgomery County, Md.
- New Mexico circuit: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
- Great Backyard Bird Count 2025 at the Glade, Fairfax County, Va.
- Geology of the Piedmont with Clifton Institute
- Huntley Meadows Park bird-a-thon, Fairfax County, Va.
- North Carolina-Virginia Coastal Plain and pelagic with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT)
- NABA counts: Occoquan Bay area, Prince William County, Va.; Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
- Sunnyside bioblitz, Rappahannock County, Va.
- Raines bioblitz, Rappahannock County, Va.
- Clifton Institute-sponsored odonate and butterfly counts, Fauquier County, Va.
- Pony Pasture, Richmond, Va.
- Virginia State Parks: Widewater, Natural Bridge, James River
- Dragon’s Tooth trails, Roanoke County, Va.
- Grassy Hill NAP, Franklin County, Va.
- Fernbrook Natural Area bioblitz, Albemarle County, Va.
- Botanizing in Leopold’s Preserve, Fauquier County, Va.
- Lichen workshop at Clifton Institute
- CBCs: Seneca and Central Loudoun
Yet another middling successful season of monitoring nest boxes at Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County, Va. I performed invasive surveys and management in several locations in Northern Virginia, including the Nature Conservancy’s Fraser Preserve.