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Upcoming Events (Click for details)
- Saturday, November 14, 8 am - Field Trip to Windsor Castle Park, Smithfield
- Saturday, November 21, 8 am - Regular monthly bird walk - Weyanoke Sanctuary
- Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 pm - Monthly Meeting - Attracting Pollinators to your Garden
- Friday, December 4 - Sunday, December 6 - Wings Over Water Wildlife Festival Encore, Outer Banks, NC
- Saturday, December 19, 8 am - Regular monthly bird walk - Weyanoke Sanctuary
- Sunday, December 20, 8 am - Christmas Bird Count at the Great Dismal Swamp
- Wednesday, January 13, 8 am and
Saturday, January 16, 8 am - Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel island #4
See our Newsletter for more news including
- Recurring Monthly Bird Walks
- Annual Meeting
- Previous Field Trip Report
- Upcoming Field Trip
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| Great Blue Heron at Norfolk Botanical Garden. Photo courtesy of Rogard Ross |
Lights Out Hampton Roads
- The fall "Lights Out" campaign started on August15 in Hampton Roads.
- As part of this voluntary program, we urge property managers, businesses, tenants, government agencies, and residents to join us in helping to prevent night-time bird collisions with building by turning off and/or blocking as many external and internal building lights at workplaces as possible at night to help prevent injury and death of migrating birds, especially from 11 pm to sunrise.
- Most of the birds migrate at night and rest during the day. Every year, thousands of birds becoming disoriented by bright artificial lights and skyglow of cities, often causing them to collide with buildings or windows, or exhaust themselves circling bright lights in the city, resulting in a major hazard during the annual fall and spring migration. Around 1 billion birds are killed each year in building and structure collisions each year.
- Learn How you can help at https://www.birdsafehr.org/
