Audubon Box LbNA #6033
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Add Location| Owner: | Scarab
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| Plant date: | Oct 12, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Reston |
| County: | Fairfax |
| State: | Virginia |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | teamboyz (2) |
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| Last found: | Dec 24, 2005 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 12, 2003 |
Temporarily retired pending new locations.
Directions to Walker Nature Center, Reston Virginia.:
Take Route 264 from I-495, (the Washington Beltway) to the Hunter Mill Road Exit. Turn left onto Hunter Mill road after paying toll. Go back under the over pass of 264 up to the “T”. Turn Right onto Sunrise Valley Drive. At the first light turn Left onto South Lakes. At the next light turn left onto Twin Branches. Pass the lake on your right. Take the next right onto Glade Road. You will see a sign on your left after 3 or 4 streets. If you get to a fourway stop sign at Soap Stone, you have gone to far. The Walker Naturn Center sign is directly across the Street from the nature center parking lot. Park. If it is after hours, or close to it, park on the outside of the gate. The gate will go down at closing.
This box has been placed in honor of our feathered friends and as a notice of an important event that takes place this year on February 13-16, 2004. It is called "The Great Backyard Bird Count”. Its purpose is to keep track of the birds that winter all across the U.S.A. It monitors any changes in migration and population of the birds around us. For more information see the web-site at www.audubon.org. It's fun and it doesn't take much time. Fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon.
Sally was excited about an upcoming science project at school. She was going to participate in the Great Back Yard Bird Count! She had always liked bird watching. Her mother had a pair of binoculars and a bird book on the windowsill of their living room and she often looked out the window to see the birds that visited the feeders. That night after she finished her homework, Sally took her dog, Rolfie, for a walk. She decided to take him to the Walker Nature Center, which was close by. It wasn't time to start the project yet but she wanted practise using the binoculars.
Rolfie was delighted to be heading in the direction of the Nature Center. He plodded on ahead of Sally wagging his tail. Rolfie led Sally down the sidewalk into the parking lot. He sniffed the bushes of the butterfly garden on their right and checked the recycling collection area on their left for any scent of his furry friends. Satisfied that he was all caught up on all the goings on in this territory he pulled Sally toward a mulch path. Keeping to the left they went past the covered picnic area on the right and a gravel path, which paralleled their route for a while. Bearing left away from the gravel path he padded on down the nice mulch trail. A small untended trail came in from the left but he pulled her down the mulch path.
At the bench they turned left. This was an old play area for Sally and she liked to visit even if she wasn't going to play. Not far was the top entrance to the gully. She passed it and went to the next right which was the other side of the gully. She and her friend Jack spent many hours running up and down the gully paths. It was especially fun in the winter to slide down the steep paths.
When she came to a tree in the center of the path she heard a sharp brassy cry from a triple tree on her left. Sally was suddenly curious what bird made such a noise. It was a strange sound that didn't sound like a whistle. It almost sounded like it came from a computer not a pretty bird. She saw some fluttering coming from the triple tree on her left and went to it to see if she could see where it went from there. It had flown about 330 degrees from the triple tree in the direction of where Rolfie was just now. He was fussing about at the base of a tree. She followed 330 degree for 15 steps to a tree with a bowl shaped indentation at the base of its trunk. Rolfie was lapping up water that had gathered in the bowl from a recent rain fall. Rolfie was taking advantage of the natural doggy bowl. Suddenly she heard the bird call again behind her. She followed an old log up past a broken arm to the next branch. There she found her first bird of the hunt, and saw who it was that made the usual bird call.
She back tracked to the main mulch path at the bench and she turned left and followed the trail further into the woods. Finally she came to a junction. She went down some yellow painted stairs and took the right path up the hill. It was starting to get dark. She remembered that the days were getting shorter. She was getting confused in the dark. She could make out some large white quartz rocks along the left side of the path. After some time she found a bench on the left. She was relieved because now she was pretty sure she knew where she was, she sat down on the bench to rest. At that moment she heard a sound that she recognized that came from straight ahead of where she sat. A log lay perpendicular to the path on the other side of the path. She got up and followed the log to its end. Another log with rootstock went off to the left. She followed along the left side of this log for three steps and found the one HOO was responsible for the cries.
From here she continued on the path to the bridge. Crossing the bridge the path led her left and into the covered picnic area and back to the parking lot. Her adventure had her safely headed home and ready for another adventure.
Remember the GBBC on February 13, 2004
Directions to Walker Nature Center, Reston Virginia.:
Take Route 264 from I-495, (the Washington Beltway) to the Hunter Mill Road Exit. Turn left onto Hunter Mill road after paying toll. Go back under the over pass of 264 up to the “T”. Turn Right onto Sunrise Valley Drive. At the first light turn Left onto South Lakes. At the next light turn left onto Twin Branches. Pass the lake on your right. Take the next right onto Glade Road. You will see a sign on your left after 3 or 4 streets. If you get to a fourway stop sign at Soap Stone, you have gone to far. The Walker Naturn Center sign is directly across the Street from the nature center parking lot. Park. If it is after hours, or close to it, park on the outside of the gate. The gate will go down at closing.
This box has been placed in honor of our feathered friends and as a notice of an important event that takes place this year on February 13-16, 2004. It is called "The Great Backyard Bird Count”. Its purpose is to keep track of the birds that winter all across the U.S.A. It monitors any changes in migration and population of the birds around us. For more information see the web-site at www.audubon.org. It's fun and it doesn't take much time. Fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon.
Sally was excited about an upcoming science project at school. She was going to participate in the Great Back Yard Bird Count! She had always liked bird watching. Her mother had a pair of binoculars and a bird book on the windowsill of their living room and she often looked out the window to see the birds that visited the feeders. That night after she finished her homework, Sally took her dog, Rolfie, for a walk. She decided to take him to the Walker Nature Center, which was close by. It wasn't time to start the project yet but she wanted practise using the binoculars.
Rolfie was delighted to be heading in the direction of the Nature Center. He plodded on ahead of Sally wagging his tail. Rolfie led Sally down the sidewalk into the parking lot. He sniffed the bushes of the butterfly garden on their right and checked the recycling collection area on their left for any scent of his furry friends. Satisfied that he was all caught up on all the goings on in this territory he pulled Sally toward a mulch path. Keeping to the left they went past the covered picnic area on the right and a gravel path, which paralleled their route for a while. Bearing left away from the gravel path he padded on down the nice mulch trail. A small untended trail came in from the left but he pulled her down the mulch path.
At the bench they turned left. This was an old play area for Sally and she liked to visit even if she wasn't going to play. Not far was the top entrance to the gully. She passed it and went to the next right which was the other side of the gully. She and her friend Jack spent many hours running up and down the gully paths. It was especially fun in the winter to slide down the steep paths.
When she came to a tree in the center of the path she heard a sharp brassy cry from a triple tree on her left. Sally was suddenly curious what bird made such a noise. It was a strange sound that didn't sound like a whistle. It almost sounded like it came from a computer not a pretty bird. She saw some fluttering coming from the triple tree on her left and went to it to see if she could see where it went from there. It had flown about 330 degrees from the triple tree in the direction of where Rolfie was just now. He was fussing about at the base of a tree. She followed 330 degree for 15 steps to a tree with a bowl shaped indentation at the base of its trunk. Rolfie was lapping up water that had gathered in the bowl from a recent rain fall. Rolfie was taking advantage of the natural doggy bowl. Suddenly she heard the bird call again behind her. She followed an old log up past a broken arm to the next branch. There she found her first bird of the hunt, and saw who it was that made the usual bird call.
She back tracked to the main mulch path at the bench and she turned left and followed the trail further into the woods. Finally she came to a junction. She went down some yellow painted stairs and took the right path up the hill. It was starting to get dark. She remembered that the days were getting shorter. She was getting confused in the dark. She could make out some large white quartz rocks along the left side of the path. After some time she found a bench on the left. She was relieved because now she was pretty sure she knew where she was, she sat down on the bench to rest. At that moment she heard a sound that she recognized that came from straight ahead of where she sat. A log lay perpendicular to the path on the other side of the path. She got up and followed the log to its end. Another log with rootstock went off to the left. She followed along the left side of this log for three steps and found the one HOO was responsible for the cries.
From here she continued on the path to the bridge. Crossing the bridge the path led her left and into the covered picnic area and back to the parking lot. Her adventure had her safely headed home and ready for another adventure.
Remember the GBBC on February 13, 2004