Join Beth Poole and Carol Winckler for a morning bird walk at Sweet Run State Park!

PVAS Host: Beth Poole and Carol Winckler

Free and open to the public. Beginner birders welcome! This program is for adults only. Registration is required and limited to 15 participants.

Join Beth Poole and Carol Winckler for the second of a new bird walk series: Monthly Mystery Bird Walks. The location of the bird walk will change from month to month – the “mystery”!

March’s bird walk will be at Sweet Run State Park! Sweet Run State Park is the newest Virginia State Park, originally the BRCES (Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship) and is a site that has many different habitats: fields, pond, streams, woodlands, a large old growth forest. This is a wonderful park to see a variety of birds. In March, it may be likely for us to see  swallows, bluebirds, and waterthrushes. There is also a chance of seeing Eastern Phoebes, Tree Swallows, Brown Thrashers, Brown-headed Cowbirds,  Common Grackles,  Fish Crows,  Louisiana Waterthrushs, and  Chipping Sparrows.

Please note that Sweet Run State Park plans to begin charging an admission fee in early 2024. It is unknown if the fee will be in effect during this program, so please plan to be prepared with a $10 admission fee or a VA State Park Pass.

Learn more about the park here.  This walk will take place at a slow pace as the group quietly observes the birds together.

Location:

Sweet Run State Park is located in Loudoun County, approximately four miles from Harpers Ferry, WV. From Route 7 west of Leesburg, take Route 9W (Charles Town Pike); after 10 miles, bear right onto Harpers Ferry Road (SR-671). Travel 5.6 miles and turn left into the park.

From US-340, turn onto Harpers Ferry Road (SR-671) and travel two miles, then turn right into the park.

The park address is 11661 Harpers Ferry Road, Hillsboro, VA 20132; Latitude 39.293534, Longitude -77.721184

Register Here!

About Beth: Beth is a retired school teacher who has always loved nature and being outdoors, with a passion for birds and gardening. She is an amateur photographer, taking lots of pictures of birds, nature, and family. She adores her two grandchildren!!!

About Carol: Carol Winckler is a native of Western Illinois, and is a retired Elementary Physical Education Teacher from Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Since the fall of 2016, she has been part of the C & O Canal Classroom Corps… who are retired teachers helping the park meet its education program requests with schools. In 2018, she became a West Virginia Master Naturalist with the local Potomac Valley Chapter. She has been a student and part of Potomac Valley Audubon’s Birding 101 class since 2007.